The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. Amid the row over the demolition of Ambedkar’s legacy in Mumbai and the rise of the Dalit rage — a la the ‘cow politics’ in Gujarat — the All India Students Association (AISA), the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), has begun Bhagat Singh-Ambedkar study circles on college campuses across the country.

Abhilasha Shrivastava