This section of the Pragati Manifesto is about how we can fix our judicial system.
Shruti Rajagopalan
The budget has morphed from an instrument of command and control to a rent-seeking and vote-gathering circus.
In the final essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at how the weakening of the Right to Property has made the state a reverse Robin Hood, taking land from the poor and giving it to the rich. But there is hope.
In the seventh essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at how the 44th Amendment removed whatever little protection there was for the Right to Property.
In the sixth essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at how theft was institutionalized under the reign of Indira Gandhi.
In the fifth essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at how property rights were weakened all through the Age of Nehru.
In the fourth essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at how our early legislators subverted the spirit of the constitution.
In the third essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at how the framers of India's constitution viewed this right.
In the second essay in an eight-part series on The Right to Property, we look at constitutional protections to this right.
In the first essay in an eight-part series on The Right To Property, we look at how the human pursuit of happiness is made possible by the Holy Trinity of private property, voluntary exchange and the price system.
If we cannot educate ourselves out of the spreading illiberalism, then what can be done? While I am deeply cynical about reforming political institutions, I have the greatest conviction in the ingenuity of the human mind.
Indians have embraced democracy to such an extent that they have left its excesses unchecked. Ambedkar warned that "the purpose of a Constitution is not merely to create the organs of the state but to limit their authority."