“Whether Ram of my imagination ever lived on this earth or not, the ancient ideal of the Ramayana is undoubtedly one of true democracy in which the meanest citizen could be sure of swift justice without an elaborate and costly procedure.” Mahatma Gandhi wrote that in one of his many Young India articles. The citizen is the centre of Rama Rajya. Not the king. Not the king’s ministers and minions. Not a coterie. Not even a religion or a language or a God. Eve...