Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: The Ideology of Samata Sainik Dal

The name Samata Sainik Dal carries its ideology in its title. Samata means equality; Sainik means soldier. Members are not soldiers in a military sense but volunteers enlisted, disciplined and organised in service of a single goal: an India where birth no longer determines a person's worth, work, or access to public life.

At the centre of SSD's worldview sit three words Ambedkar placed at the heart of India's constitutional Preamble: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. He was explicit that these could not be separated — liberty without equality becomes the liberty of th