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Dr #BabasahebAmbedkar was a student at the Columbia University. After reading reports about the plans for a statue, he wrote to the Bombay Chronicle (founded by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta in 1910), opposing the idea of a state as a memorial +
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Ambedkar said leaders like Mehta and Gopal Krishna Gokhale had "grappled with many of our problems" and were "entitled to everlasting gratitude for the zeal and sacrifice with which they represented our cause." But a memorial in the form of a statue was "very trivial & unbecoming
As a student in one of the biggest universities of the USA, #Ambedkar said he was "thoroughly convinced of the place a library has in the intellectual and social development of a people." He urged the 'Bombay public' to consider the construction of a library as "the fittest and
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud to shortly arrive at the Supreme Court library to pay respects to DR B.R Ambedkar on the eve of #AmbedkarJayanti2023 #CJIDYChandrachud 
CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice BR Gavai pay respects to Dr Ambedkar #AmbedkarJayanti2023 #SupremeCourt
