When Indians attained Independence from the British on 15th August 1947, we embraced many significant and influential ideas of transformative change that any society should aspire when it embarks on a new beginning. These are – democracy, constitutionalism, entrenched rights and freedoms, a parliamentary form of government, free and fair elections, universal adult suffrage, and constitutional prohibition of all forms of discrimination. The adoption of the ideas was ambitious, aspirational and truly transformative.