The Indian Constitution is widely perceived today as a transformative document that sought to ‘educate’ the first citizens of an India, then recently freed from the yoke of colonial rule, about what living in a democracy substantively means. It would be surprising then to note that large parts of the document are essentially re-purposed from the Government of India Act 1935, which was widely reviled as a ‘charter of slavery’ by the very same freedom fighters who deliberated in the Constituent Assembly. So, is it in fact high time that we rewrite our Constitution, which Somnath Lahiri once described as being “framed from the point of view of a police constable”? If so, would it be desirable if the powers that be use this ‘decolonization’ moment to run roughshod over the nation’s foundational principles and align our Fundamental Rights with a major ...