Manifesto of an insignificant Indian

The journey so far calls for a dispassionate performance evaluation, howsoever unsatisfactory or incomplete it may be, on account of one's limited knowledge, understanding and unavoidable prejudices

Independent India is soon completing seventy three years of its existence. Anniversaries are a good time for stock taking of the progress made, identifying current trends and resolving to make course corrections. More than seven decades of experimentation with a democratic and inclusive political system, riddled with an inherited social and economic system which, despite significant improvements in recent times, continues to be patently unequal and unjust, is a story which has no parallel in human history. The journey so far calls for a dispassionate performance evaluation, howsoever unsatisfactory or incomplete it may be, on account of one’s limited knowledge,