Collection
Your Country
How the country is meant to work, and what one person can do about it.
The Constitution
India's operating system
The document setting out how India is governed and what it may not do.
Fundamental Rights
Six categories of freedom
Six protections the Constitution guarantees to every citizen.
Fundamental Duties
The other side of rights
Eleven responsibilities the Constitution asks of every citizen.
How a Law Gets Made
A bill's long walk
The path an idea travels before it becomes binding on everyone.
The Panchayat
Democracy at the doorstep
The elected village council, the smallest unit of government in India.
RTI
Three letters, total transparency
A law letting any citizen ask a public body what it did and why.
Road Safety
The physics of speed
The rules and physics that decide who survives a collision.
Public Transport
Moving a million people at once
Shared vehicles that move many people using little road each.
Climate Change
The 1.5-degree line
The long-term warming of the planet caused by trapped gases.
The Carbon Footprint
Your share of the sky
The total greenhouse gas one person's choices add to the air.
Diversity
India's multiplication factor
The range of languages, faiths, and backgrounds living in one country.
Ethics
When there is no clean answer
Reasoning about right and wrong when every choice costs something.
The FIR
Your first step in the legal system
The written report that opens a police investigation.
PIL
When one person moves the court for millions
A court case brought on behalf of people who cannot bring it themselves.
Water Scarcity
The crisis that arrives without warning
Having less clean water than the people in a place need.
Community Service
The selfish case for giving
Unpaid work done for a community rather than for a wage.
Civic Sense
The invisible contract
The small courtesies a shared space depends on but no law requires.
The Election
The largest exercise in democracy on Earth
The process by which citizens choose who governs them.