Shail Mohan’s Reviews > Ambedkar's India > Status Update

Professor John Dewey, who was my teacher, and to whom I owe so much, has said, “Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with deadwood from the past and with what is positively perverse. As a society becomes more enlightened it realises that it is responsible not to conserve and transmit the whole of its existing achievements but only such as make for a better future society.