New Release | Non Fiction The author will be at Walking BookFairs (Bhubaneswar & Cuttack bookstores) this weekend for a book discussion and signing. The Constitution of India, which came into effect on January 26, 1950, is “a terrain of contestation between different visions of power and its history has been marked by a centralising drift”. A new book argues that the seeds of this drift — concentration of power with the Union Executive — are contained within the text and design of the Constitution itself. Over the years, the courts (in particular, the Supreme Court) have aided and abetted this through a set of ‘inflection-point’ judgments. An excerpt from The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power. Read an excerpt here. https://www.thehindu.com/books/rights-law-judiciary-people-constitution-nation-government/article69126670.ece