Blurb: The second big task for India is to rewrite the Constitution. If we had an individual rights oriented Constitution, then Mr Binayak Sen wouldn’t have been arrested, nor Ms Radia’s phones tapped.

The much awaited Telangana report was released on Jan. 6th. While we debate the merits of whether the state of Andhra Pradesh needs to be bifurcated, we should take time-out and reconsider the larger issues raised by the report. Two issues dominate – first, that there is a crying need for a States Reorganization Commission, mach II and second, that it is time we considered the writing of a new constitution.