The merits and demerits of the consequences of both vision and mission are evaluated by people in general and pundits in particular mostly by hindsight. The script of India’s much glorified Constitution owes it to the vision of its writers while the subsequent happenings have been the mission of the successive Governments both at the Centre and in the States and Union Territories in the form of their measures, unarguably causing delight to some sections in the population and disappointment, expressed as disgust to many other sections. Knowledge of the level of rocket science is not needed to be clear about the identity and profile of these two sections, portraying one aspect of the land’s diversity, hurting its stability, if not unity, which has got fractured due to various factors, particularly the sway of politicos whose spokespersons are preoccupied wholetime making public speeches that impress only their gullible hirelings, whose number is rising to appalling proportions, majority being the country’s youth.
The defence of various measures, introduced as Acts and Amendments to the Constitution by the top brass in administration is marked by the claims to correcting some of the wrongs of the past, invoking the land’s chequered history. One of the wrongs, namely unbecoming conduct by one section of the past generations towards the other section, dictated by social hierarchy, was focussed upon in the vision of the then Constitution writers.
