India, April 14 -- Ambedkar Jayanti, observed every year on 14 April, marks the 135th birth anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) - the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, India's first Law Minister, and the most relentless voice the marginalised have ever had. Born into an "untouchable" Mahar family, Babasaheb refused every ceiling society placed on him. He earned doctorates from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, led the Mahad Satyagraha for the right to drink water, drafted a Constitution that made every Indian equal before the law, and in the final weeks of his life, converted to Buddhism alongside 600,000 followers - choosing liberation over a system that denied him humanity.

His thr...