Affiliations such as nationality are not only matters of entitlement, they all also involve attachment and responsibility. In a rapidly changing country, as India certainly is, one of the duties that we have as Indians is to ask: what kind of a country this is. This may lead to the further question: what does it demand of us, at this time? I am very aware that it is ratherreckless to ask grand questions of such apparent naivety. Butsince I don’t indulge in other dangerous activities, like taminglions, or being on the trapeze, or standing for parliamentary elections, perhaps I ought to show some bravery and foolhardinesshere. Hence this lecture.

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