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Your Country

How the country is meant to work, and what one person can do about it.

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The Constitution

India's operating system

The document setting out how India is governed and what it may not do.

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Fundamental Rights

Six categories of freedom

Six protections the Constitution guarantees to every citizen.

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Fundamental Duties

The other side of rights

Eleven responsibilities the Constitution asks of every citizen.

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How a Law Gets Made

A bill's long walk

The path an idea travels before it becomes binding on everyone.

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The Panchayat

Democracy at the doorstep

The elected village council, the smallest unit of government in India.

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RTI

Three letters, total transparency

A law letting any citizen ask a public body what it did and why.

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Road Safety

The physics of speed

The rules and physics that decide who survives a collision.

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Public Transport

Moving a million people at once

Shared vehicles that move many people using little road each.

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Climate Change

The 1.5-degree line

The long-term warming of the planet caused by trapped gases.

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The Carbon Footprint

Your share of the sky

The total greenhouse gas one person's choices add to the air.

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Diversity

India's multiplication factor

The range of languages, faiths, and backgrounds living in one country.

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Ethics

When there is no clean answer

Reasoning about right and wrong when every choice costs something.

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The FIR

Your first step in the legal system

The written report that opens a police investigation.

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PIL

When one person moves the court for millions

A court case brought on behalf of people who cannot bring it themselves.

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Water Scarcity

The crisis that arrives without warning

Having less clean water than the people in a place need.

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Community Service

The selfish case for giving

Unpaid work done for a community rather than for a wage.

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Civic Sense

The invisible contract

The small courtesies a shared space depends on but no law requires.

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The Election

The largest exercise in democracy on Earth

The process by which citizens choose who governs them.

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