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SIXTEEN STORMY DAYS - TRIPURDAMAN SINGH GEBUNDEN

Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic  shedding
its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With
fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the state  the new constitution was
universally acclaimed as the 'world's greatest experiment in liberal government'. This
idealistic birth of a new republic meant a clean break with a repressive past. And yet  barely
twelve months later  the very makers of the constitution were denouncing their own creation.
Passed in June 1951  the First Amendment to the Constitution was a pivotal moment in Indian
constitutional history. Sixteen Stormy Days explores the contentious legacy of this First
Amendment which drastically curbed freedom of speech  restricted freedom against discrimination
and circumscribed the right to property. It follows the sixteen days of debate that led up to
it  the people that created it  the great battle waged against it and the immense consequences
it has had for Indian democracy. It is a cautionary tale about an almost forgotten but hugely
consequential piece of history that holds the key to understanding the position of civil
liberties and individual freedoms in India today. It challenges conventional wisdom on iconic
figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru  B.R. Ambedkar  Rajendra Prasad  Sardar Patel and Shyama
Prasad Mookerji  and lays bare the vast gulf between the liberal promise of India's
Constitution and the authoritarian impulses of her first government.

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