Letter From The Beyond

April 2, 2012

Rajendra Prasad and Ambedkar on retrospective changes to laws

To

Dr Manmohan Singh

Dear Prime Minister,

We left your world many decades ago; when we left it, we were proud that we had left behind a good legacy. We had spent many years worrying about the fact that India’s history was replete with the arbitrary and capricious rule of different Rajas and Sultans. By giving India a formal Constitution, we thought that we were doing our countrymen and countrywomen a service. They would get to live in a nation ruled by laws and not by men. But now we realize that we were mistaken.

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