Hyderabad, July 5 -- A "leader" slaps a teacher. A "leader" forces food into the mouth of a fasting canteen employee. A journalist who wrote against some leaders is murdered. A journalist who investigated a politically inconvenient matter is charged and sent to prison. Students who raised questions are charged and sent to prison. Trees are cut down in a national park despite a court restraint. SC guidelines are not implemented. Faith in the administration, in the judiciary, erodes.

What is going on, and why? Are the comforting assumptions we live our lives under no longer relevant? Are we out of tune, or is the malaise elsewhere? If so, is there a cure? If there is, what is it?

From virtue to constitutional restraint

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