India, Feb. 20 -- The national portal of India, india.gov.in, proclaims, "India is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a parliamentary form of government which is federal in structure". Indeed, that was what the founding fathers and mothers of the nation envisaged, as evidenced by the Constitution they gave us. But 75 years on, we find ourselves at a crossroads, grappling with a situation in which not only federalism but also secularism, democracy, and the parliamentary form of government are in jeopardy, due to the machinations of the present Union government....