A Different Way to Honour Ambedkar’s Words
Ramji’s father Ch. Das was a student of the economics department of University of Hyderabad between 1986 and 1988. In the time he had spent there, Das struggled for food each day but was a staunch student leader, his son remembered.
He had only one advice for Ramji, “First stand on your own feet. You can then do any service you want to.” In essence, sustaining oneself should precede one’s duty of representing and serving one’s roots. When his father, the government employee, came to meet Ramji amid protests, he asked him to take his time.
“Such things happen, he told me. He asked me to take as much time as I wanted. I just did not know what to do with time,” he said.
As students of several varsities and educational institutions across the country started their own Ambedkar Students Associations, the president of Hyderabad Central University’s ASA refused to step out of the campus even to visit his family in Visakhapatnam.
But,…