Why it’s time for systems upgrade in 21st century

Day two of the

Times Litfest

Delhi saw author

Atul Khanna

dwell on the

Constitution

where he said that our almost seven-decade-old founding document is “hugely unfit for the 21st century”.

Khanna, an entrepreneur-turned-author, was discussing his recently released maiden book ‘Between You And Me: Flight to Societal Moksha’. Khanna said time has come to overhaul the structures governing us — be it permanent bureaucracy or PSUs or even our education system to align it with changing times and throw up world-beating innovators and scientists. “Time is greater than wisdom of any age. That’s what I’m trying to argue in my book. Talk as a citizen to fellow citizens,” he said. Khanna admitted he had often been asked if Indians have not benefited from the current structure of the Constitution and the need to fiddle with the ‘Basic Structure’ doctrine. “I am not saying incremental progress is not being made. All I’m saying is it’s being made not to its potential,” he said.