Constitutional Values and the Indian Ethos

I feel deeply honoured at having been in.ited to deliver the 1996 Kale Memorial Lecture. The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics is an Institution of great repute in thc ficld of social sciences and I am grateful to its Director, Dr. D.C. Wadhwa, for granting me the opportunity to be in your midst today. The Lecture series, which has been consistently held since the year 1937. has featured eminent stalwarts from every walk of Indian public life and I must confess to being in the grip of an overpowering sense of diffidence at the prospect of being counted amongst them.