“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.
Few words in our democratic language invoke visions as paradoxical and as powerful as sacrifice. On the one hand, sacrifice recalls an archaic, ritualistic,...
"Annihilation is refusal of the world as it is. Annihilation is destruction of the world as it is. Annihilation is an act of faith....
No idea in our political lexicon is as deeply mired in paradox as freedom. One is wholly alive, wholly human, we are often told,...
