"Our longest meeting was at (Ambedkar’s) house two months before he died. We were together from three o’clock in the afternoon till six in the evening and no other person was allowed in the room. That day Ambedkar spoke from his heart. He criticized his son and also his nephew and I left the house, saddened (that) my friend was at journey’s end.”
Naval Bhathena, the "only dear friend” of social reformer and political leader B. R. Ambedkar, at his last meeting in October 1956. The two were roommates at Columbia University in New York in 1913. Cited in Ambedkar: A......