In a journey towards understanding health, healthcare and their distribution, one can rarely stray too far from the social determinants of health. Despite various biomedical, genetic and environmental determinants of people’s health, the underlying modulatory effects that social determinants can have on all other determinants is staggering. And a quest towards understanding social determinants of anything eventually leads to the journey towards unpacking the norms, values, traditions and such that have shaped society. After all, many of these social determinants are deeply rooted within political, social, cultural and various other historical processes that shape a given society/community. A foundational document that shapes India’s political-legal-social tradition is the Constitution. And India’s post-independence history and certainly current events are reason enough to critically understand our Constitution.

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