After a month of peaceful protests, police-action induced violence, and a powerful march to the parliament, the youth have successfully made a minister take accountability. At Freedom Park, a hardworking print-maker, Y, makes copies of the Preamble of the Constitution for people to carry home. He invites policemen, and all the people who curious look at the screen print to make their own copies. There is a sense of hope in the air, and a sudden grounding of power. Quite suddenly, questions of prosecution are no longer fear inducing, there is companionship in numbers. There is space for cynicism, there is space for hopelessness still, but a large component of the feeling I am sensing is hope. ...

My first attentive introduction to the person Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar is, is with the Constitutional Observer, I am learning who he was, and what he is now to people from the places I visit. I did not grow up with such a consciousness, so I must learn now. I must also learn what he means to my own politics. This is simply a collection of my own experiences during the Ambedkar jayanti Celebrations this year. Of course it is a lot of questions and observations that only people who have lived in Bidar may fully understand. ...