Alongside celebrations of the tricolors, let us be reminded of Dr BR Ambedkar’s 1949 speech in which he prescribed a ‘union of trinity,’ an integrated reading of liberty, equality and fraternity, for resolving a ‘life of contradictions’ in India. Sana Irshad and Sumit Baudh trace some of the outlines and contours of this trinity as it operates in some of the contemporary landscapes of law, anti-caste movements, queer mobilisings, reservation quotas, economically weaker sections, burqa bans and anti-conversion laws. This conversation, which is in the context, and an oblique critique, of the ongoing government campaign ‘Har Ghar Tiranga,’ took place over email.