00:01I don't know if we remember that the term Trist entered the Indian political vocabulary
00:13in Jawaharlal Nehru's Seva speech on the night of the 15th of August 1947.
00:27And what he said on that occasion is that we make a twist with ourselves and with humanity at large.
00:39And that remained for us the basic principle on which our statements developed.
00:52And therefore when I came to writing the Constitution of India, its first page, which spells out the preamble to
01:08the document,
01:10lists out four principles, justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
01:24Now the last 35 years or so, we have moved in some measure towards achievement of the first three of
01:36these objectives.
01:38Somewhere we have done well, somewhere we are still lying behind.
01:43But one area where we have singularly failed to make any problems is that last word of the preamble.
01:55Fraternity.
01:56Fraternity.
01:57Fraternity.
01:57And what does fraternity mean?
02:00In simple language it means Bhaicharu.
02:05I have no document that I have come across which in any serious sense spells out what does the Indian
02:16state commit itself to the promotion of fraternity.
02:21And.
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