Bending the Constitution, backwards

As Independent India completes her 65th year, one of the more frightening aspects of the anniversary is how little we’ve changed. There are, of course, the obvious changes in income levels, in poverty, in mortality, in the structure of the economy, in its global competitiveness … you name the area, and there’s been a change for the better. The pace may have been slow initially, but even that has picked up and you can see the clear link between GDP growth and poverty reduction, between GDP growth and jobs growth, or educational standards and even in winning Olympic...

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