This announcement was greeted by wild cheers by a crowd of Obama supporters at Grant Park Chicago. The world too rejoices. As far as Obama’s root country of Kenya, huge crowds celebrate.
Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States. He has clinched an historic victory in the American election, becoming the first black President of the United States.
I met Professor Saddhananda Fulzele, the organizer of the great 1956 conversion ceremony, in a university building adjacent to the Dikshabhumi conversion ground: Dr Ambedkar College, which Prof. Fulzele founded and developed into a top-ranking college. I asked him to tell me his memories of Dr Ambedkar and 1956.
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Buddhist Ethics and Social Development
Mr. Pravin Bhalesain
President, The India Center for Buddhist Studies (ICBS)
1. Introduction:
India is a multicultural society with many faiths, practices, languages and religions. The social composition of the Indian society is very complex considering the different classes, castes and tribes that form it. Major religions identified and practiced are Hindu, Muslim, Christen, Buddhists, Jain, Sikh and Zoroastrians.
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The Constitution of India (Marathi: भारतीय संविधाण) is the longest written constitution for a country, containing
- 444 articles,
- 12 schedules, numerous amendments and
- 117369 words.
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar as chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, was one of Constitution’s chief architects. (Upon India’s independence on August 15, 1947, the new Congress-led government invited Ambedkar to serve as the nation’s first law minister, which he accepted. On August 29, Ambedkar was appointed chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, charged by the Assembly to write free India’s new Constitution.)
१. मैं, ब्रम्हा, विष्णू और महेश इनको भगवान नहीं मानूंगा तथा इनकी उपासना नहीं करुंगा।
२. मैं, राम और कृष्ण इनको भगवान नही मानूंगा तथा इनकी उपासना नहीं करुंगा।
३. मैं, गौरी, गणपती आदि हिंदूधर्म की किसी भी देवी या देवताओं को नहीं मानूंगा तथा इनकी उपासना नहीं करुंगा।
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