- Recent Event: December 17, 2022: Celebrating 22 years of Alternative Law Forum, with a lecture by Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar and Du Saraswathi on 'Constitution as a Document for Social Reform: The Challenges Ahead'
- Latest Publications Released: Participation in Play – Demonstrating a Practicable Approach to People’s Participation in the Context of Policy Making during COVID-19
- Latest Publications Released: Resignations and Resistance Amidst State Inaction - Chronicling Garment Work During the Pandemic
“Preamble embodies that this Constitution has its root, its authority, its sovereignty from the people.”
– Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Constituent Assembly Debates)
Alternative Law Forum works with the primary impetus to liberate the Constitution from the lawyers and the courts.
“The Constitution is founded in the fact that it is ‘we the people’ who ‘adopt, enact and give to ourselves’ this Constitution. The essence of the founding moment We The People of the Indian nation lies in the fact that it does not make allusions to a misty past but remains firmly tethered to the idea that the people of the country have given themselves the Constitution.”
– Excerpt from the book, The Preamble: A Brief Introduction. (Download and read the full book here)
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On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. [...] How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril.
Dr. BR AmbedkarConstitutent Assembly Debates -
Liberty of speech means that it is unassailed even when the speech hurts; liberty of the press can be said to be truly respected only when the press can comment in the severest terms upon and even misrepresent matters.
MK Gandhi -
A constitution is a political document which gives legal content to a set of pre-existing rights, secured politically by people's struggles. Rights have always been acquired, never granted. Freedom was acquired by the people from the British and not granted to us by the Indian Independence Act, 1947.
K. BalagopalHuman Rights Activist -
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Dr. B. R. AmbedkarAnnihilation of Caste
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