Ambedkar founded Mook Nayak to voice Untouchable grievances.

Evidence

Around this time, Ambedkar started his first journal, Mook Nayak (Leader of the Voiceless). Tilak’s newspaper, Kesari, refused to carry even a paid advertisement announcing the publication of Mook Nayak. The editor of Mook Nayak was P.N. Bhatkar, the first Mahar to matriculate and go to college. Ambedkar wrote the first thirteen editorials himself. In the first one, he described Hindu society in a chilling metaphor—as a multi-storeyed tower with no staircase and no entrance. Everybody had to die in the storey they were born in. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 316

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  • XREF: The ā€˜multi-storeyed tower with no staircase’ metaphor is a strong image of caste rigidity worth preserving.