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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan his start-of-Monsoon issue of EW features an Eyewitness Report
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, on an extraordinary initiative. An imaginative, unprecedented
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Constitution Museum and The Freedoms and Rights Academy
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. has been built on the 85-acre campus of the new genre, top-
Parth Shah, Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); ranked O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat (JGU, estb.2009).
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta This imaginatively conceptualised and curated museum provides a timely
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); reminder of the invaluable fundamental rights that were bequeathed to all
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citizens by founding fathers of the Constitution.
EDITOR But regrettably right from the time the independent Republic of India was
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promulgated on January 26, 1950, these fundamental rights have been steadi-
MANAGING EDITOR ly diluted. The right to freedom of speech and expression has been watered
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down to the extent that utterance of words that might “hurt the sentiments of
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR people” are proscribed according to a recent Supreme Court judgement. Simi-
Sundar Anand larly, the fundamental right to carry on a business, trade or profession was
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi diluted by post-independence India’s infamous licence-permit-quota regimen
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) that strangled privately-promoted businesses to favour government-promoted
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) public sector enterprises (PSEs). Simultaneously, the right of citizens to
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