On the Eve of Constitution Day, 2022 On 25 Nov 1949, Dr Ambedkar gave his last speech in the constituent assembly. He expressed his desires, hopes, vulnerabilities, concerns and cautions to be considered for a flourishing independent India. Along with his famous three warnings he mentioned various points that we can’t and shouldn’t forget as a nation. Here is an excerpt from his speech, “… how difficult it is for Indians to think that they are a nation. I remember the days when politically- minded Indians, resented the expression ‘the people of India.’ They preferred the expression the ‘Indian nation.’ I am of opinion that in believing that we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion. How can people divided into several thousands of castes be a nation? The sooner we realize that we are not as yet a nation in the social and psychological sense of the world, the better for us. For then only we shall realize the necessity of becoming a nation and seriously think of ways and means of realising the goal. …Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of…social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life… …They form a union of trinity in the sense that to divorce one from the other is to defeat the very purpose of democracy … …let us not forget that this independence has thrown on us great responsibilities. By independence, we have lost the excuse of blaming the British for anything going wrong. If hereafter’ things go wrong, we will have nobody to blame. Except ourselves… …If we wish to preserve the Constitution in which we have sought to enshrine the principle of Government of the people, for the people and by the people, let us resolve not to be tardy in the recognition of the evils that lie across our path and which induce people to prefer Government for the people to Government by the people, nor to be weak in our initiative to remove them. That is the only way to serve the country. I know of no better.” #equalitylibertyfraternity #constitutionday #JaiBhim (at Chandigarh, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClaIWXhyR4nbJnsTHmSv7tsb0LrosxchbfeIkk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=