India, Feb. 27 -- The invitation to write this piece on "the path on which the Republic should journey in the coming years" described the Constitution as "a remarkable visionary document that guarantees individual rights, social and economic justice, freedom of speech and expression, the right to practice one's faith of choice, [and] protection of minority rights (linguistic, religious, ethnic, and gender)." I ask: Is there a secular democrat in India who is not deeply distressed by the current attacks on these basic principles of our Constitution, and by the human misery caused by the subversion of basic economic and political democracy? It is in this situation that the government of Kerala has dedicated itself not only to securing justice, liberty, and equality for all citizens, but also to giving life to the Directive Principles of the Constitution....