Gautam Bhatia’s The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power seeks to fill that conspicuous gap in constitutional literature in India. The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power By Gautam Bhatia HarperCollins India Pages: 300 Price: Rs.599The constitutional provisions organising power along these six axes are not free from contestation. He goes on to add that the “centralising drift”, which is common across all six axes, is pronounced in the areas of federalism. The overall picture shows that the judiciary has so far favoured a “centralising reading” of federal provisions. In the concluding chapter, Bhatia looks at two other axes of power, namely economic power and social power, which the Constitution does not address adequately to recalibrate the entrenched horizontal imbalance of power.