In 1945, Dalit icon and architect of the Indian constitution Dr B R Ambedkar, wanted to hold a conference at the United Nations (UN). That wish never fructified. Now, 60 years after his death, that dream is coming true. Delegates from 50 countries, including India, are to gather at the UN headquarters in New York on April 14, 2016, Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary, to discuss Ambedkar’s ideas, speeches and thoughts, which have been penned down and compiled in a book called, ‘The Ambedkar Volume’.

PM Narendra Modi at an Ambedkar memorial in London last year