In March 1927, a 35 year old Babasaheb Ambedkar marched with over 10,000 people down the steps of Chavdar ('tasty' in Marathi) tank in the town of Mahad, Maharashtra, bent down, dipped his hands into the water, and took a drink. Many public spaces such as water bodies like the Chavdar tank and roads were out of bounds for Dalit people for generations - our touch, even our shadow, considered impure. This act, then, of quenching one's thirst from the water of Chavdar, was not only a fight for the basic human right to drink water, but more importantly, it laid the foundations for a casteless society.