Of Constitution: The little Indian inside me.

Nitin Gadkari, quite recently was hawking from the rooftops, post Ramdev arrest, about the alleged assassination of Constitutional Rights. For someone as naive as me, it is only natural to gain interestto discover what rights is Mr. Gadkari talking about. Afterall, if he could understand and comment on them, they musn't be very difficult to fathom.

My inquisitiveness was to know, what does the constitution imbibe that makes it so sacrosanct and ubiquitous in reference? What is it, that we take refuge into, assuming it to be an omnipotent salvation for common man's misery by the rule of law?

And yet, the fact that there are so many disgruntled by its virility, betrays its status as an aphrodisiac for the masses drove me to atleast start with what we know, as the Constitution of the Republic of India.

If it were a book review, which this is not, my first disappointment would have come with the opening lines itself. The oft quoted Preamble. The poetic flow of words which has tried its level best to meaninglessly encompass every word relevant for a nation as diverse as India. However, the beauty in the 'wordy' start represents the dilemma to speak in one flow for a nation as vast as ours.

What disappoints about the preamble is the irony. The irony that the words that presumably are to be symbolic of any Indian life, have lost relevance in the common day of any individual.

It promises and pledges rights, which 'We, the people of India' best know aren't redeemable to them.

The justice spoken of in the Preamble is best available to the choicest few.

Liberty, is infringed and violated upon, or even removed depending on which voice you chose to support.

'the constitution resolves to secure to all its citizens' an equality of status and opportunity, a pledge so void, that it isn't even worth commenting upon.

Ofcourse, there is an easy way of looking at things. We may chose to pat our back and compare the better state of affairs than several other nations. Or we may hang our head in shame when constitutionally bound pledges of sovereignty are broken by corrupt leaders, committing nothing short of treason.

We live in times which are difficult, not because there are hardships in only our systems and governance, but the level of inertia to now change the wrongdoings is tremendous. That, which was gauranteed by the constitution has been raped and abused. Even more sadly the same has been accepted as a norm and we lookon if not look away, helplessly.

Today, the Supreme Court, the guardian of the constitution,tries bring the blunders in following the code of the constitution by the Government. Sadly though are the pricks of the small mistakes regularly committed which miss the discerning eye of the Honb'l Court.

What we have to look forward to is whether the documented hopes of those who brought us freedom remain to be known by coming generations as the 'constitut'ion or lead to what might be the 'con'situation.