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Monday, May 7, 2018, 12:00 PM   |   e-paper HOME PUNE MAHARASHTRA ART AND CULTURE SPORTS BUSINESS WORLD OPINION Home   Opinion   Dalits’ plight: No improvement since 1935 conversion pledge Dalits’ plight: No improvement since  Dr Ambedkar's 1935 conversion pledge Camil Parkhe Saturday, 5 May 2018     goo.gl/8Fsp3B    Dr Ambedkar’s pledge to give up Hinduism, therefore, sent tremors in the  Indian social and religious circles with various Hindu leaders trying to persuade him to reconsider his decision while leaders of other religions tried to woo him into their religions. Frustrated over the discrimination and injustice meted out to his untouchables community, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar vowed in Yeola in Nashik district in 1935 that: “I may have born a...

Has Maharashtra’s social reform movement failed to end casteism? CAMIL PARKHE |  Tuesday, 27 September 2016 AT 02:07 PM IST       goo.gl/WEzfbe Camil Parkhe ,  Maharashtra ,  social reform ,  Ratnagiri ,  Veer Savarkar ,  casteism When Veer Savarkar was interned at Ratnagiri from 1924 to 1937, being banned from undertaking any political activities, he utilised this period for ushering in social reforms within the Hindu community. One of his major initiatives during this period was building Patit Pavan temple at Ratnagiri with a view to open doors of temples to people even belonging to the then untouchable castes. Savarkar was against the barriers of castes which had divided the Hindu community, banning physical contact with the Shudras, attending meals or entering into matrimonial ties within different castes of the Hindu community. A few decades later, ‘Prabodhankar’ Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, father of Shiv Sena fou...