It is through the Supreme Court of India that most of the constitutional provisions are made known to people, otherwise, they would be just be there in the constitution, said Bangalore university in-charge vice-chancellor V Sudesh here on Friday. The Department of Studies and Research in Law, attached to the University of Mysore (UoM) held a two-day national conference on ‘Six Decades of Indian Constitution: Then, Now and Future’ at the department premises. Inaugurating the conference, Sudesh said the deliberation of the conference should focus on how India has functioned under the constitution in the past, present and what is the role we have in future. “We started off in a grand manner. The preamble is a best example for what all the constitution promised through equality, liberty and fraternity to the citizens of India. The ideals of the constitution - socialism, democracy and secularism - came much later, but how these ideals shaped the lives of individuals in the past is a moot question in itself”, he said. Sudesh explained the status of the Constitution during its initial launch and said, “With the help of the Constitution, then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru developed a development model for India. But feudalism dies hard. Colonialism resists constitutional liquidation and bureaucracy. Indians have not moved away from the same feudalistic concept that we lived in the British era. We still have land problems, food and poverty and the constitution continues to fight all these” Sudesh opined that the constitution can be classified in to two – ‘The Nehru Era’ which concentrates on development through the green revolution along with Industrial revolution. “And then comes ‘the Manmohan Era’, when in 1991 when India opened up to LPG-liberalization, privatization and globalization during the period of the then PM PV Narasimha Rao, and former PM Manmohan Singh who was then the finance minister,” he said.