Fraternity and economic transformation

The preamble of the Constitution resolves to “constitute India into a republic” and to secure justice, liberty and equality for all its citizens. These can be secured by law and policy action. But the preamble also seeks to promote fraternity amongst its citizens. Fraternity is secured in society, not by government.

Fraternity is an often overlooked challenge. Until we see Indian society demonstrating much more fraternity than I have seen in my life, there will always be authoritarian and sectarian voices that justify limiting liberty and equality. Low fraternity societies are low trust societies and this is then reflected in