 Celebrated film director and writer Shyam Benigal is a man who has wrestled with complex historical and social issues with the defties. He wanted to explore the personality and the psyche of the man who almost single-handedly shaped the document that today dictates each citizen's life in India. Dr Bhimraav Ramji Ambedkar or Baba Saheb Ambedkar, as he is popularly called now, was a towering personality who steered the constituent assembly that wrote the central law book of India and left a huge footprint on India as a nation. When a group of interpret reformers began fighting the British colonizers and trying to wrest India free from a coercive foreign rule of more than 100 years, there was one man who did something even more revolutionary. If trying to eject the British was a courageous task that only a brave heart could undertake, fighting the caste system was akin to finding a pervasive ghost. Only a maverick would do that. The founding fathers of the first Indian government picked just this eclectic figure to take up the task of writing the constitution of India. Ambedkar had been to an American university so his ideas were much more modern and only now he realized he was ahead of his time and now people are appreciating what he was trying to say then. I'm quite convinced that given time and circumstances, nothing in the world will prevent this country from becoming one. Our constitution is a wonderful example. The way it starts is saying that we are one. All of us. There's great diversity of this country. Now, this is something that is so beautifully drafted. We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India. And when he says humbly that this is our document we are presenting to ourselves, it's a great moment of pride for him and the entire nation. This 26th day of November, 1949, give to ourselves this constitution. To give voice to the voiceless is an aspect of genuine democracy. Indian constitution is designed in that fashion. Ambedkar was like a bitter dose that worked to cure years of bias and prejudice that had piled up in the Indian ecosystem. He made a frontal attack on the caste system in his first draft of laws. He was thinking in terms of an egalitarian society. Laundering in the darkness of Dalit discrimination, Ambedkar's belief in merit was like a torchlight for his followers. And Ambedkar is someone who also told Dalits that education is a weapon. With education, you can transform the society. I think Ambedkar is a global thought leader because I take inspiration from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and they spoke against some kind of a segregation in the society. I would put Ambedkar even in a higher pedestal. Ambedkar's message, it's for billion, like 1.2 billion of Indians. Muk Nayak was not just the name of a journal that Ambedkar published in order to convey his ideas on empowerment. Muk Nayak, a man who strives and speaks for the silent, was the central theme of his life. Ambedkar drafted the Hindu Code Bill that tried to bring in equal rights for women in inheritance, maintenance, divorce and remarriage. Only somebody who had educated himself, who had become a very contemporary modern world citizen, the classic quality of Ambedkar. From Hindu Code Bill to all inclusiveness of women, which we are still struggling for, is, I think, ahead of time. If I am able to do something today or every woman in the country is able to do something in her field, then this is the gift from Dr. Bihar Ambedkar. Very few people know that it was Ambedkar who set out key labour laws detailing rights of employees and critical issues like 8-hour work shift, medical leave, minimum wages and equal pay for equal work. He looked into the future to create what is essentially an egalitarian constitution. If you look at our constitution and compare it with a lot of constitutions of that period, you'll find how remarkable it is. In a time when it's difficult to get acknowledgement and endorsement from young millennial, Gini is clear about who her hero is. Many young artists across India are investing their creative energies in spreading the seeds sown by Dr. Ambedkar. Artists like Mari Selvaraj, Ravi Kumar Anand, Meena Kandasamy, Sukheer Tarani and Palani Muthu Sivakami from Tamil Nadu, Arvind Malagatti, Siddha Lingaia, Chandru Shekhar Bhandari, Koti Ganahalli Ramayya from Karnataka, Aruna Gokulamanda, Gogo Shyamala, Jupaka Shubhadra from Telangana, Dr. C.S. Chandrika, Vijila Chirappad from Kerala have been taking the thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar to farthest corners of India. In a time when it's difficult to get endorsement from young millennials, Dr. Ambedkar is a figure that is invoking renewed admiration and adulation. During his lifetime and even many years after India's independence, the contributions of Dr. Ambedkar did not get the spotlight they deserved. Now in recent years, Government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid unique homage to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. He has been thinking of many people, especially young people, to learn about them and to focus on them. Therefore, in this government, the important places associated with Baba's life are being developed as a means of reform. Dive him! Dive him! Dive him! Dive him! Creating five memorials of Panchatirtha in memory of his tremendous contribution, the present government has put a spotlight on Dr. Ambedkar's life and his ideas. Bhima Janma Bhumi Memorial in Madhya Pradesh pays respect to the place where he was born. Ambedkar's Shiksha Bhumi Memorial in London salutes the places where he as a student honed his ideas of an equitable polity. Deeksha Bhumi Memorial in Nagpur pays respect to the place where he launched social reforms. Mahapari Nirwana Memorial in Delhi, where Dr. Ambedkar died and Chaitya Bhumi Memorial in Mumbai, where he was cremated have become venerated spots to revisit Dr. Ambedkar's enlightened writing and exemplary life.