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Chaityabhoomi has been closed to the public since Tuesday No god came to save me/No prophet came and made me free You came and took my life in hold/It was like dust and you made it gold Had lockdown not clipped the wings of Dhamma Wings, a 10-year-old rock band that spreads the teachings of Dr B R Ambedkar and Buddha through its music, this freshly-born paean to Ambedkar titled ‘We are because he was’ would have travelled from Navi Mumbai-based singer Kabeer Shakya’s lungs to audiences’ hearts during their customary annual show on April 14. However, this Ambedkar Jayanti, like the one spent in lockdown last year, will be quiet for Shakya and his five-member Ambedkarite Buddhist gospel band, whose past performances on the occasion have not only prompted rustic boys into asking if they could touch the alien instrument called the guitar but also once propelled a bespectacled, octogenarian woman in Vardha to plant an appreciative kiss on their former lead guitari ....