Baba saheb Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar was a successful journalist.As part of his struggle spanning over 4 decades, Dr. Ambedkar always used print media of his own as one of the instruments to achieve his goal of emancipating the untouchables. Even in 1920 when he had just begun his struggle, he launched a Marathi fortnightly, “Mooknayak, (the leader of the dumb)”. Dr. Ambedkar had written editorials for this magazine. This magazine survived just for about a year and half. The magazine could be started with the financial assistance from Shahu Chhatraapti Maharaj of Kolhapur. In April 1927, Dr. Ambedkar started the magazine called “Bahishkrit Bharat (The Ostracized India)”. This time he was more organised. He had bought over a printing press through public donations. The press was named as “Bharat Bhushan Printing press”. During the publication of B.B, Dr. Ambedkar personally took lot of care to see that every issue has very high standard of writing. This magazine was published for about 2 years. In 1930, Dr. Ambedkar started a new journal named, “Janata (The People)”. This magazine lived for 26 years. After that the magazine’s name was changed to “Prabuddha Bharat (Enlightened India)”. The names of the magazine which Dr. Ambedkar published had the reflection and the emphasis of the direction of his movement at a particular time. He changed the name of Janata to Prabuddha Bharat when he was in the process of launching the massive historic conversion to Buddhism.

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