Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan An appeal to reason in an age of godmen, gullibility, and engineered ignorance The Constitution's Forgotten Promise Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution places a remarkable obligation on every citizen: to develop the scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform. This is not a guideline. It is a fundamental duty — as binding in its moral weight as any right we jealously claim. And yet, in 2026, India is watching that promise drown in a flood of sacred ash, miracle water, and prime-time astrology. We are a nation that sends spacecraft to the Moon and Mars. We produce world-class mathematicians, biologists, and engineers. And simultaneously, we are a nation where stadium-sized crowds prostrate before men who claim to materialise gold from thin air, cure cancer with cow urine, and commune directly with the divine — for a fee. This is not a contradiction we can afford to be proud of. It is a crisis. The Godman I...