“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.
Often shrugged off as a passing sense of dejection in a world that has let us down, “disappointment” might be the most intransigent concept...
If freedom is the most molecular of human desires and hope the most fragile of human capacities, then fear is an all too human...
If there are twin pylons on which our democratic deformities today seem to stand, they are identity and indifference. Democracies wage war in the...
