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[ The Republic ]

The Emergency has never really ended

The textbooks treat 1977 as the closing of a parenthesis. Read the preventive-detention statute book, the internet-shutdown logs, and Part IVA of the Constitution, and the parenthesis is still open.

2026-05-18 · 22 min read

[ The Republic ]

Fundamental Duties were a Trojan horse

Part IVA arrived in 1976 dressed as moral instruction. It was drafted to subordinate Fundamental Rights to State-defined obligations, and the post-2014 jurisprudence reviving the duties chapter as an enforcement aid is the original design finally finishing its work.

2026-05-18 · 23 min read

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