India, April 19 -- To aspire and strive to be Viksit Bharat by 2047 is a noble vision. We all must contribute in our own ways to achieve this ambitious goal. But shouldn't we pledge that this Viksit Bharat will have no trace of untouchability, practised in over 13,000 villages today?

The celebrations all over the country on April 14th marking the135th birthday of Dr B.R. Ambedkar were arguably the most elaborate and perhaps best attended. Political leaders belonging to the ruling parties as well the Opposition queued up in discipline to pay floral tribute to him. For a change, cutting across party lines, they saluted a Dalit leader, who in his life, in spite of his intellectual brilliance, vast legal knowledge and enviable degrees from p...