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There is a yawning gap between a majoritarian political agenda and an understanding of every citizen's basic constitutional rights

A BJP politician thinks the chief of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, needs to be educated on the Citizenship Amendment Act and a lower court judge educates a public prosecutor and the police on the right of every Indian to sit in protest. Between the two is a yawning gap between a majoritarian political agenda and an understanding of every citizen’s basic constitutional rights. In the meanwhile, all of this is distracting attention from what Kumar Mangalam Birla has referred to as “slowbalisation” and the economy as the opinion pages indicate today. Kanika Datta sums up the views.

First up, the lead