On Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, we return to his warnings and radical proposals — not just about democracy, but about the deep-rooted economic and social structures that keep it from working.

In this episode of the Indian Ocean podcast, Tauqueer Ali Sabri, project manager at RLS South Asia, speaks to Professor Sukhdeo Thorat about caste, race, women, economic discrimination, and why Ambedkar’s vision of fraternity — drawn from Buddhism, not the French Revolution — remains so relevant today.