“Some friends say I made the Constitution, but I shall burn it.” — B R Ambedkar
“Ambedkar is a Constitutionalist only because he is a Revolutionary.” — Aishwary Kumar
Why are constitutions the site of our new civil wars? How did we, who live in democracies, become at once more fanatically attached to the words of the constitution and remorselessly barbaric in compromising its very spirit?
Mutant probes the most philosophically knotty, politically charged, and violently contested nucleus of modern democracies: their founding document.
It is today impossible to understand the fragility and violence of democracy’s global life without grappling with the appearance of an unprecedented political form...
If freedom is the most molecular of human desires and hope the most fragile of human capacities, then fear is an all too human...
"Annihilation is refusal of the world as it is. Annihilation is destruction of the world as it is. Annihilation is an act of faith....
