Why Young indians Don’t Care About the Constitution — And Why They Should
The most important document in the country is the least understood by its future citizens.
Ask urban youth about the Constitution. You’ll hear vague answers about “rights,” “freedom,” and “Ambedkar,” but little understanding of how deeply the document shapes their daily life.
This ignorance is not innocent — it is engineered. Civics education has been hollowed out, chapters removed, and political history softened. Young indians grow up learning how to score marks, not how to question power.
A population that doesn’t understand its rights cannot defend them.
A population that cannot defend them becomes easy to rule.
Youth today worry about jobs, inflation, social media, relationships — but not the erosion of liberties that directly affect their future. Internet shutdowns, surveillance laws, shrinking campus freedoms — these issues decide their world more than any exam result.
Political parties love uninformed youth. They are easier to mobilise as crowds, trolls, and voters. Harder to mobilise as thinkers.
The Constitution matters because it protects you from the state when the state decides you’re inconvenient.
If young india doesn’t reclaim constitutional awareness today, they will inherit a democracy in form but not in function.
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