Article by upper Castes Dear Editor, Do you publish articles in your site written by upper castes also? Thanks. Dr.Vivek Kumar, Asstt. Professor Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 110 067 Posted on September 11, 2007 Representing our community Brother Prem Chumber you are doing hard work to representing our community in the world. Thanks and best wishes. Param Kainth paramkainth@hotmail.com Vancouver (Canada) Posted on September 10, 2007 JASPREET SAYS "YOUNG ARE THE STARS OF TOMORROW" This is Sucha Ram's son, I am sure that you know my father. You're website is a great contribution to the online world. It shows the current leaders of today and how they are working towards making a better future for the next generation. I would request that we look at the current young leaders in our community that are the stars of tomorrow. This list could include athletes, political leaders, or students that are working hard to bring prosperity to our community. I believe education that will help our community compete with the others and will help complete Dr. Ambedkar's dream. Although we have come to United State of America and have been educated, let us not forget our brothers and sisters in India. I hope start trusts and foundations that we can bring help to these individuals become educated. The education is a tool that will break the chains of Indian Society; business looks at the degrees one hold and their education. Resumes do not ask for Castes; please encourage our leaders to push forth this movement. Thanks for working so hard on this website and keep up the great work. I wish you all the best and the staff. With best regards. Jaspreet Dehar Posted on Sept. 5th, 2007 (07:04 AM) PROFSSIONALISM Dear Prem Kumar Chumber, Thanks for posting my report on California Visit and notes on 'Ambedkartimes.com' one year copletition. Pictures look great. I can tell now that you have the touch of professionalism that pulls readers attention.  All pictures of California Visit are great. R.K. Oshoraj POSTED ON September 4, 2007 THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY Dear Mr. Prem Kumar Chumber, I would like to congratulate on behalf of the Shri Guru Ravidass Temple and the Sacramento Community for your First Year Anniversary of Ambedkartimes.com.  You have showed great determination and hard work for keeping the web site up to date and filled with very valuable information.  Your time and effort has not gone unnoticed in the Community and has been a excellent resource for all.  The website site has shown great success and complements your professionalism to journalism and your dedication to your beliefs.  Many have said great things about www.ambedkartimes.com and it has been my pleasure to say that I personally know you and how much of an excellent addition you are for the voice of our Community.  You have set a excellent example on how to establish a voice for our Community and I believe many more will follow. Thank you for enabling our Community another voice in the digital arena and providing the inspiration for others. Best wishes for many years to come, Kewal Krishan Bolina President Shri Guru Ravidass Temple, Rio Linda, California (USA) Posted on Sept. 4th, 2007 THE GREAT BABA SAHIB DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR This is Love deep Jhamat, or as u would know me, Dharam Paul Jhamat's oldest son. I really like your site because it shows us how the great B.R. Ambedkar has helped our whole community by showing us the way to overcome huge obstacles. It also teaches many of us kids who have spent our whole lives in America about who we are and what we can do if we try. I just have one request for u uncle Ji and that is if u could post the wedding pictures of Balvir Boparai on your site again, so we could see them again. LOVE DEEP JHAMAT S/O MR. DHARAM PAUL JHAMAT BAY AREA (CALIFORNIA) Posted on Sept. 4th, 2007 Indian Buddhist Society Toronto, congratulates  Ambedkartimes.com on successful completion of first year of website Ambedkartimes.com website is connecting our community globally. Personally, I was able to read more about our great scholar, writer, political thinker and great personality Dr. Ronki Ram’s very impressive articles based on his unique and intensive research. A website must have lots of required user friendly features like easy search function, new and easy to read online content, changed color of visited links, acceptable font size for most of the users, page titles for easy navigation, no pop up information that interrupts readers, answer to users’ questions, pictures and graphs for self explanation of information, being aware about users requirements, providing credible content and well organized content to sustain current readers and invite new to the site. All above features are evident in Ambedkartimes.com that makes this site more frequently visited site for our new community activities and for important information. We had the pleasure to share our activities with viewers of this site across the globe that had us motivated to continue our mission and to keep each and everyone informed. If we were to suggest anything for this site; we would suggest that Mr. Chumber must keep his site updated with new and credible content. All articles and information should be checked for its authentication. Information received should be verified prior to posting on the site. An improved quality of pictures will impress viewers and keep them bringing back. Also, continue inviting suggestions on an on going basis for the site. Finally, we commend Mr. Prem Kumar Clumber’s laborious work, dedication and commitment that are making it happen for all of us. His committed dedication to host the site is highly appreciated and we wish him great success, good health and good luck for future. May Lord Buddha shower him with happiness, peace and prosperity! Raj Kumar Oshoraj Vice President Indian Buddhist Society Toronto (Canada) POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2007 Azad Jalandhary Congratulates to ambedkartimes.com on its very first anniversary Dear Shri Chumber Sahib, I hereby send my heartiest congratulations on one year completion of your Ambedkartimes.com. You have diploma in journalism and also happen to be the editor of Quami Udarian Jalandhar and some other local news and magazine. I am glad that you have dedicated this web-site to Baba Sahib Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in the memory of Babu Mangu Ram Mugowalia as well as Bhagwan Valmiki Ji, Shri Guru Ravi Dass Ji, Sat Guru Kabir Sahib Ji and Sat Guru Baba Nam Dev Ji. You have done remarkable job by publishing supplements on Gurpurb of Shri Guru Arjun Dev Ji, Shri Guru Ravi Dass Ji and also about Ghadri Baba Babu Mangu Ram Mugowalia Ji (A founder of Ad-Dharm Mandal Punjab). Please continue this great work. I am sure that one day the community will definitely appreciate you & your work to make this web-site. I wish you a great success. With best wishes, Azad Jalandhary Shiromani Kavi (California, USA) POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2007 Ambedkar Mission Toronto (Canada) Congratulates to ambedkartimes.com I would like to congratulate Mr. Prem Kumar Chumber, editor of ambedkartimes.com for putting together an excellent website where we all can network. His dedication to this website is stupendous and in the end producing a website we are proud of him. Mr.Chumber is doing our whole community a favor by hosting this website. He is a very charismatic and dedicated person who is leading our community into the modern world and the future. He is also selfless and does this for the community, not for himself and he is a perfect example for our community. I believe that to better ourselves, we have to look deep within us and find out who we are. We can try to be like someone but we can not and this is why to better ourselves we should look for the answers in our past and present so we can change the future of our community and make the leaders of tomorrow even better. He began the process to changing our community for the better and we should all take part and help change our community for the better. Mr. Chumber, all the best with your website and all the services it offers and keep up the superb work you have done! Once again we wish you all the best and we will support you whenever needed. Sincerely, Anand Balley Gen.Secretary Ambedkar Mission (Toronto) POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2007 =========================================================================== CONGRATULATIONS TO SHRI GURU RAVI DASS SABHA OF NEW YORK India’s 60th Independence Day  The float of Baba Sahib Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the first of its kind in the world history, Dr. Ambedkar was architect of Indian Constitution and Social Reformer. As followers of Dr. Ambedkar we are very happy and proud of Shri Guru Ravi Dass Sabha (New York). May the ones are blessed who devoted their time and financial support at this event. Baba sahib is well known patriot Personality in American History. By doing this kind of events will highlight Baba Sahib in today’s American Eyes.  As once said, we are very thank full for such originations those who, put their intensive time and efforts to keep our Saviour Baba Sahib Ambedkar.           Mission alive. Ambedkar Mission (Toronto) extends their support to Shri Guru Ravi Dass Sabha to do more and more historic events. In appreciation we would like to thank the www.ambedkartimes.com (Prem Chumber) for keeping us updated.  In the Mission, Anand Balley, (General Secretary) Ambedkar Mission. (Toronto, Canada) POSTED ON AUGUST 27, 2007 ================================================================================================= RETIRED US ARMY COLONEL G.B. SINGH WILL DISCUSS GANDHI’S RACISM AT KING CENTER  Dear Mr.Chumber, I am contacting you on behalf of Organization for Minorities of India. We are sponsoring an event which will occur at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in which retired Army Colonel GB Singh will speak about Gandhi's blatant racism toward dark-skinned peoples, exposing the myth behind the popular view of Gandhi; a myth so well preserved that the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta contains a statue of the racist-minded Mohandas Gandhi. We believe that this will be an informative event not only for African Americans but for Dalits as well. If you know of a way to inform any Dalits living in the Atlanta area about this event your forwarding of this information to them or letting us know how to do this would be very much appreciated! About Col. Singh - Col. G.B. Singh is a retired U.S. Army medical officer. He has been stationed in many parts of the world, including twice in South Korea. He is also a professional student of Indian politics, Hinduism, and the life and teachings of Gandhi. His latest book, "Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity" (Prometheus Books, 2004), explores little known facets of Gandhi's life, placing particular focus on his many years in South Africa. About OFMI - The Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI) was created to educate people about the history and current role of the major religious and cultural Indian minorities, which include Buddhists, Christians, Dalits, Muslims, and Sikhs. Our goal is also to encourage dialogue and understanding between Indian and non-Indian minorities. About the event: The event will be held at the martin Luther King Jr. Center on Sunday, August 26th from 2pm-5pm. Everyone that is available to attend is welcome. Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing from you. Zach Fuller POSTED ON AUGUST 24, 2007 =========================================================================== SPECIAL THANKS TO SHRI GURU RAVI DASS SABHA OF NEW YORK Our special thanks to Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha New York and to all Punjabis who took first historic step to highlight Baba Sahib Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in India's 60th Independence Day Parade in New York.  NRI Punjabis have played a lead role in spreading and promoting Baba Sahib Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's mission around the world for over fifty years. They have always offered their services and finances voluntarily for the community support. I must mention here that the main organizers and financers of Baba Sahib's float were our Punjabi brothers and sisters of New York along with other Indians. We extend our support from around the world to encourage them to do more such historic events.  We are proud of our community members who dedicate their time and money to spread Baba Sahib's Mission of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Today, we are proud of all who organized Baba Sahib's float for the parade. Our special thanks to Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha and all Punjabi brothers and sisters for their support and financial help that made it  happen.   Also, we appreciate AMBEDKARTIMES.COM for posting beautiful pictures of the float. Yours,  In mission, Raj Kumar Oshoraj Indian Buddhist Society Toronto, Canada POSTED ON AUGUST 24, 2007 ================================================================================================= DR. RONKI RAM'S ARTICLE.... I chanced to hit the website-found it a veritable treasure of much needed background info on the historic travails & triumphs of the community. Recently had read Dr Ronki Ram's article in Tehelka on Dera sacha Sauda-it was indeed revealing for its Dalit Dimensions Dr Ram's article on Ad Dharm Movement on the site is of encyclopedic reference It is really gracious & thoughtful of u to report the passing away of Judge I D Pawar , a veteran of the community Hope the high quality of material on the site wd be scrupulously maintained. All the best wishes, Sincerely, Baal Anand baal.anand@gmail.com   POSTED ON AUGUST 20, 2007 R. K. OSHORAJ PRESETNS HIS THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WEBSITE Raj Kumar Oshoraj Vice President, Indian Buddhist Society, Toronto (Canada)   I would like all of you to join me to commend an honest and hard working personality of our community who is known by all of you for the past years and I am sure you will all agree about his dedicated hard work. He is one and the only Mr. Prem Kumar Chumber, Editor, Ambedkartimes.com. Mr. Prem Kumar Chumber is doing a commendable job by hosting Ambedkartimes.com website with a great dedication. He is an example of integrity, honesty and loyalty. We must learn a lesson from him to serve our community without any personal benefits. Our community certainly can benefit by having such personalities who are honest and dedicated, however, there are some people who pretend to be the community workers and expect money in return of their services. Some of them think, after a while, community will forget about their false promises and they can come and try to get more money without explaining what they have done with the money they took years and years ago. They call themselves to be working in the service of the community but in actual, they are surviving on the pity of their own community. How our community is surviving; it is because of the people who are quite the opposite and Mr. Prem Kumar Chumber is one of them. He spends his own money, time and efforts to serve the community. He works very hard days in and days out without any personal benefit and without the expectations of any financial help of others. I personally assure you and also I think I can take the liberty on behalf of all those people who have used your website services over the years without any cost, all will stand by you if you ever needed any support. Mr. Prem Kumar Chumber, all the best for your community services and keep up the good work. May Lord Buddha bless him with peace and good health! =============================== www.ambedkaritmes.com appreciates Mr. R. K. Oshoraj's kind words about the website and the editor. We will definately do best with having support from our valuable viewrs.Once again thanks to Mr. R.K. Oshoraj. Editor www.ambedkartimes.com POSTED ON AUGUST 17, 2007 MR. SAURAV ARYA PRESENTS HIS THOUGHTS 'DALITS AND MEDIA'! Saurav Arya Jai bhim! It was nice talking with you! Needless to say, you have done an excellent job by putting up www.ambedkartimes.com It is hightime to start social networking at mass scale. Internet has been a great boon to dalit movement  and now Dalit NRIs,Intellects and Students  are in touch  with  eachother. I have been involved in social networking with fellow ambedkarites since 2004. When I was in second year of my undergraduation in IIT Kharagpur, i was quite excited to see yahoogroups like : dalits-international, BudhistCircle, apnaIIT etc. After graduation,in 2006 I got recruited by Danieli (www.danieli.com) and started working as a Purchasing Engineer in Danieli Headquarters,Buttrio,Italy. In last few years, I made some effort to strengthen our media.I believe that unless we wont have an alternative media,it wont be possible to achieve social  and economic  equality. We  have  yahoo and google groups,  websites  and now its time to have  TV channels,  movies ,  magazines,  rock bands... Presently I am writing a book : 'Dalits and Media' and previously i had made some videos and composed few songs against caste and racial discrimination.I would like to team up with those who are interested in making short movies and documentaries for social cause. Regards, Saurav Arya Mob -+39 3346140628

ABOUT WEBSITE   Jai Bheem! Website looks great and very professional, as you know Papaji left for India July 8th. I have asked him to put bussiness size add in hindi and punjabi in Bheem Patrika so more people will know about the website. Behalf of our family we would like to thank you for all the coverage. Please let me know if i could be of any assitance.   Sincerly,   Anand Balley ==================================================== NEW FACE OF WEBSITE Jai Bheem! I realy like the new face of website. Just keep it up. We all the followers of Baba Sahib very proud of yours hard work. Once again thank you so much. Des Raj Bangar ===================================================== SUGGESTION FOR RECENT CHANGES I am very pleased to say and appreciate on your hard work for the propagation and spreading of Baba Saheb's mission. All your works and presentation is excellent. However, recent changes seems bit confused and couldn't see the new immidiately as does before. Therefore, I would like you suggest, would you make it easy as before? Which will be very beneficial to all.   Wish you all the best...   Ven. Sujan ==================================================== Thank you all.  This design is temporary & the new one should be coming pretty soon. Editor www.ambedkartimes.com Posted on July 17, 2007

THANKS TO ALL WELL WISHERS

L. R. BALLEY

Editor, Bheem Patrika (Jalandhar)

I got affectionate treatment, respect, and patronage from all our well-wishers during my visit to Canada Sabha Toronto, Ambedkar Mission (Toronto) and Ambedkartimes.com for their warm welcome and successful Ambedkar Jayanti, Buddha Jayanti, Sant Shiromani Satguru Kabir Sahib Commemorated  Celebration. during the months of May and June 2007. I would like to thank Sri Guru Ravi Dass Sabha Ontario, Bhagwan Maharishi Valmik

In particular, Messrs Kashmira Singh, Jagiri Bance, Prem Chumber (Editor www.ambedkartimes.com), Malkiet Heer, Ramesh Dhanda, Banta Ram Jakhu, Raj Heer, Jaswant Sandhu, Sukhdev Thapar, Ashok Sandhu, Charan Dass Leer, Gain Kura, Mohinder Sallan, Rakesh Sallan, Harmesh Sandhi, Sunil Raju, and their families and Ven. Gyanosri of Indian Buddhist Temple .Ven.Ratna Sri of Toronto Mahavihar (Sri Lanka) Buddha’s Light International Association.

In my absence, there have been lot of atrocities on the Scheduled Caste (Dalits) and they have been criminally assaulted, once again in Talhan, Nurmahal and many other places. Therefore, for the protection, guidance of the poor particularly the Dalits, we need your moral and financial assistance, not for any individual, but for the organization which are in the field and working very honestly and efficiently.

I thank all of them and assure them that I will, as always, prove to the mark for the confidence reposed in me.

Yours in the mission

L.R.Balley

POSTED ON JULY 13, 2007

Thank you very much for posting the Buddhist Celebration for Canada & World Peace 2007  news on www.ambedkartimes.com  website. I highly appreciate your efforts. Keep this good work up. 

Thanks again!

Malkiat Heer

Contribution!

Jai Mulnivasi

I feel your work, effort and contribution to pay back to the society is priceless. Please carry on donot listen to other as our people have never lerned to appreciate of their owns.

The effect and impact of your contribution will go a long way we must learn to wait for out come.Thanks for putting up this site, there are thousand and thousands who are benefitting from your contribution..

Yours in Mission
M S Bahal

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Excellent articles on Dalit consciousness in Punjab including Babu Mangu Ram. It is pity that the people sitting in the Gurudwaras are not interested to know about
their great history. They have their mind set and don't want to change it. I have
personal experience with so many people like this. Any how we got to keep on
knocking, one day they might realise the reality. Keep up the good work.

With best wishes and warmest regards,

Arun Kumar

UK

Greetings to Prof. Ronki Ram

Dear All,

We must pay sincere homage to our great leader, emancipator and savior Babasaheb. I also convey my greetings to Prof. Ronki Ram for his article on Babasaheb and nationalism.  Baba Saheb was the true nationalist in every action. He has the courage and ability to single-handedly oppose the national leaders of his time as also the English rulers

Jai Bheem

Surrender Kumar

Thank you for sharing this great celebration! ! I am sure you had a wonderful experiance and shared thoughts with all ambedkarite in Guru Ravi Dass Temple visit. I wish all brothers and sisters a happy 116th Annivarsary of Babasaheb Ambedkar.

Mohan Nirala

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  Dear Ambedkarites,

Here is my visit to Guru Ravi Dass Temple to celebrate the 116th Birth Annivarsary of our "Father of  Modern India Dr.B.R.Ambedkar" .www.ambedkartimes.com  Many thanks to www.ambedkartimes.com and the editor Prem Chumber. Prem Ji is a Ambedkarite journalist and a strong activist to uplift the dalits in India. Ref: home page article with pictures.

Dear Dr. Ronki Ram 

Thanks. You have done a good job and rendered an appreciative service to the community in writing about the 
DERA BALLAN. The Dera could be a centre of Social emancipation, if we work towards that end.

With regards,

 (Ramesh Chander)

Prague (Czech Republic)

Dear Ramesh Ji,

 Thanks for kind words. You can find more articles on Dalit Movement in Punjab on <www.ambedkartimes.com>.

Dear Dr. Ronki Ram,