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The death of Father Stan Swamy and several others as the tragic outcome of the arrest and detention without fair trial brings into critical focus the approach that the state has been adopting towards understanding social activism. In the ethics of democratic practice and constitutional morality, such an official approach would be evaluated as indiscrete, if not arbitrary, in comprehending the nature of social activism. Arguably, there is a spectrum on which social activism seems to operate. In this regard, it needs to be mentioned that the liberal orientation of the Indian Constitution does provide ground for a wide spectrum of social activism. Social activists adopt different methods of protest that are peaceful, non-violent, democratic and constitutional.
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