It was a famous joke in coaching days, hilariously told by chemistry teachers over the physics ones that whatever difficulty one may come across in the problems in physics – gravity, viscosity, air resistance…it is presumed negligible. Same is the algorithm of experimental analysis in almost all the sciences, an integral part of which is taking presumptions. It is only after these constraints that the ‘universe’ of analysis becomes a finite domain and hence solvable.
I bet, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar (further referred to as DBRA) was of the same analytic mind. The assumptions in the constitution are bare and far too many. For example, the concept of no absolute power – the axis of decision making bodies revolves in multiple sects – parliament, bureaucracy and the president. Perhaps, DBRA assumed that no Indian will ever be able to develop an acute sense of morality and justice, so it would be better to keep a check and tab on everyone. Despite this decision making India a democracy in absolute sense, has kept us from many privileges.
A direct presumption of this assumption (read morality & justice) is that it will always be imperative to take decisions on a ‘public’ consensus, the fact that delays might cause quandaries remaining immaterial. Even the constitutional head of the country – the president is helpless when a bill comes to him for being passed the third time. He can only refer it back twice suggesting changes in it and seeking alterations.
But then technology which is the applied form of experimental outcomes is independent of assumptions. It is only when the experiments invade the domain of assumed laws and conditions, that machines and hence their real sense of work comes into being.
For every such change in the system, one again has to presume that the system supports change (it better do, because change is the only perpetual truth) in order to succeed on itself and evolve. It is time, that the guardians of constitution start experimenting – outside the domain of their assumptions.
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