NEW DELHI, Feb. 27 -- Rights and duties of a citizen are the two sides of the same coin. In the absence of fulfilling one's duties, he/she cannot morally claim rights. The Constitution of India guaranties six fundamental rights under Articles 12 to 35 in part III of the Constitution. It also enjoins on its citizens 11 fundamental duties under article 51A. The eighth of the eleven fundamental duties is to "develop scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform". While the fundamental rights are justiciable, the fundamental duties are not. That does not reduce the importance of fundamental duties, especially the need for developing scientific temper.

Jawaharlal Nehru in The Discovery of India, writes, "Scientific temper ...