Babasaheb lives on.

Dr B R Ambedkar lives on through all of us. On his 124th Birthday, we honour him with a song by the Telugu poet, late Kalekuri Prasad.

Video Courtesy: Dalit Camera

Translation: Kuffir

 

You stood up for us!

You were born for us!

You stood up for us!

Wiping away our age old fate

You have laid the foundation for building a new age!

O Babasaheb Ambedkar!

For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion

 

Caught In the fangs of the caste demon

In a world filled with deceit

When your people languished

Crushed under the spell of Manu dharma

Ostracized as outcastes,

You rose as the blazing Sun

And burnt Manu into ashes!

O Babasaheb Ambedkar!

For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!

 

Untouchable! Slave of the savarnas!

O lonely one, the landlord’s servant!

O perennially starving coolie!

This wretched way of life can’t continue anymore!

Here’s your savior!

O Babasaheb Ambedkar!

For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!

 

You were born on this earth

In the caste of the oppressed

Separated from the rest by villains

Who said only the ghetto is yours;

You demolished this degrading system

That tied a broom to your behind

And a pot over your mouth.

 

O Babasaheb Ambedkar!

For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!

 

On the path of Baudha Dhamma

Armed with the Buddha’s preachings,

The Ashtanga Marga,

The Pancha Shila principles,

The values of Samata, Karuna, Pradnya

And impelled by the quest for truth

The chariot of Ambedkar’s ideals moves!

 

O Babasaheb Ambedkar!

For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!

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