Arshia Sana

ON JANUARY 18, 1940, B.R. Ambedkar stood before a Poona audience gathered to celebrate the 101st birth-anniversary of jurist, economist and the foremost social reformer of nineteenth-century Maharashtra, Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade. . He accepted the invitation reluctantly. He knew, as he later wrote in the preface, that his views on social and political problems "would not be very pleasing to the audience." He delivered the address anyway which ran for an hour and a half.

Arshia Sana Arshia Sana is an Assistant Professor at O.P Jindal Global University. Her research focuses on international human rights law, particularly the rise of hate crime through human rights lens.