Believe the article appended below is a must read for this subject. Lawrence -----
All together now Dipankar Gupta Wednesday, January 25, 2006 21:07 IST The Constitution of a Republic may spell out the rights and liberties of citizens, but what about fraternity? No Constitution by itself can guarantee fraternity, but without it, rights and liberties become legal pieces of paper, or even instruments that the strong can use against the weak, as in any court of law. Fraternity requires, first and foremost, that there be a basic set of resemblances between people. It is not that everybody must be the same, but at the foundational level they must be similar. While equality and liberty can be enacted by law, fraternity requires to be carefully nurtured on account of its perpetual frailty. BR Ambedkar realised this perhaps more clearly than most of his colleagues in the Constituent Assembly. Equality of rights, opportunities and even ends (such as in 'reservations') can be felicitously expressed in legal terms, and realised too, without too much difficulty. Read the rest of this article at: See http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=3D1009627&CatID=3D19