---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shiva Shankar <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:34 AM Subject: Ambedkar, pioneer of women's rights To:
‘Ambedkar was a pioneer of women's rights' http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/20/stories/2010042060710400.htm The Hindu Staff Reporter Bangalore: The Women's Reservation Bill should be passed first and its drawbacks, if any, should be looked into later, said B. Hanumaiah, Vice-Chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, during a lecture on B.R. Ambedkar's vision of women empowerment here on Monday. The National Aerospace Laboratories' (NAL) Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) Employees Welfare Association had organised the lecture as a part of Ambedkar's 119th birth anniversary celebrations. Prof. Hanumaiah said that the Hindu Code Bill of 1949, which was drafted by Ambedkar, was the first step towards women's empowerment, as it gave women the right to property. “Ambedkar had worked towards the breaking down of the barriers in the path of women's empowerment, but it is rarely acknowledged today,” he said. A.R. Upadhya, Director of NAL, said that women were the most repressed sections and their progress is important as they form a majority of the population. -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
