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00:00I am extremely happy and privileged for having been given this opportunity to release this
00:10very important book written by Justice Nag Mohan Das, a retired Justice of Karnataka
00:22India High Court, explaining the importance of the constitutional values as enshrined
00:35in the Constitution of India. Justice Nag Mohan Das, while highlighting the important
00:44aspects, the secular, democratic and republican values enshrined in Indian Constitution, he
00:57has also very judiciously and carefully highlighted the threats that are coming towards this very
01:15same secular, democratic and republican values enshrined in the Indian Constitution of late.
01:24Not only during the last 10 years or so, when there is a paradigm shift in the ideology
01:37and philosophy that governs the powers that be, but since the mid 80s, there has been
01:53systematic efforts to propagate certain values in the name of values, according to those
02:10who advocate this argument. They say that the Indian Constitution does not represent
02:20the Indian traditional jurisprudence. So, these forces, this communal and revivalist
02:33forces, they say that the Constitution which was adopted following detailed debates in
02:42the Constituent Assembly, after we having achieved independence, that Constitution should
02:49be done away with or drastically changed to make Indian Constitution quote-unquote
02:59a Constitution which follows quote-unquote Indian tradition, which in short is what is
03:08embodied in Manusmriti. When the Indian Constitution Assembly was about to finalize the Constitution