Indian constitution: cornerstone of a nation

INDIA's founding fathers and mothers established in the Constitution both the nation's ideals and the institutions and processes for achieving them. The ideals were national unity and integrity and a democratic and equitable society. The new society was to be achieved through a social-economic revolution pursued with a democratic spirit using constitutional, democratic institutions. I later came to think of unity, social revolution, and democracy as three strands of a seamless web. The founders believed that none of these goals was to be pursued, nor could any be achieved, separately. They were mutu ally dependent and had to be sought together.
During recent years it has become fashionable among some citizens to disparage the founders and their document. These individuals, disappointed by developments in the country since 1950. have called for changing the Constitution, explaining that it has not 'worked.' Such thinking, in my view, is misguided. Constitutions do not work,' they are inert, dependent upon being 'worked' by citizens and elected and appointed leaders.