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Mnemonic & Memory-Hook Index
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Every mnemonic, image-peg and acronym used in this book, gathered in one place for a final-day scan. Cover the "Chain / image" column and see how many you can reconstruct from the "Cases (in order)" column alone — that direction is the harder, more useful test.
| Section | Mnemonic phrase | Cases (in order) | Chain / image |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Basic Structure | "Some Sane Goats Kept Indira's Minerva Waiting" | Shankari Prasad → Sajjan Singh → Golak Nath → Kesavananda Bharati → Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narain → Minerva Mills → Waman Rao | Goats blocking a temple gate; Indira's statue and Minerva's owl kept waiting outside |
| A. (peg) | "Go lock" | Golak Nath | Parliament tries to lock Part III and fails — the absolute-bar holding |
| A. (peg) | Scales | Minerva Mills | Minerva, goddess of wisdom, weighs FRs against DPSPs |
| B. Early FR toolkit | "CRAK the Article 14 code" | Charanjit Lal Chowdhury → V.G. Row → Anwar Ali Sarkar → Kraipak | A locksmith cracking open the Art. 14 safe one tumbler at a time |
| C. Privacy false starts | "Sharma Kicked Kharak" | M.P. Sharma → Kharak Singh | Both names crossed out on a blackboard by Puttaswamy (2017) |
| C. 1978 troika | "Maneka's Batra Satisfied" | Maneka Gandhi → Sunil Batra → Nandini Satpathy | A passport snatched at an airport; solitary confinement challenged; a police interrogation room |
| C. 2018 sextet | "Common sense, Navtej Shines, Aadhaar meets Hadiya" | Common Cause → Navtej Singh Johar → Joseph Shine → Puttaswamy (Aadhaar) → Shafin Jahan (Hadiya) | A wedding where a bouncer checks Aadhaar at the door, Navtej shines a torch, Common Cause gives the toast |
| D. Federalism | "Berubari Kicked Bommai's Chair, Rameshwar Needed Services" | Berubari → Kihoto Hollohan → Bommai → L. Chandra Kumar → Rameshwar Prasad → NCT Delhi (2018) → NCT Delhi Services (2023) | A state assembly chair kicked over; everyone ends up asking who controls "services" |
| E. Reservation | "Champa Told Indira, Nagaraj, Ashoka and Jarnail to Earn it" | Champakam Dorairajan → N.M. Thomas → Indira Sawhney → Nagaraj → Ashoka Kumar Thakur → Jarnail Singh → EWS/Janhit Abhiyan | A teacher lining up students by year, telling each to "earn" their seat |
| F. Judges cases | "Gupta Gave it away, SCAORA Seized it, the Reference Refined it, NJAC got Nixed" | S.P. Gupta (1st) → SCAORA (2nd) → Reference (3rd) → NJAC (4th) | Count 1-2-3-4 on your fingers: executive wins, collegium born, collegium grows, collegium survives |
| G. Ninth Schedule | "Waman built the Wall, Coelho found the Crack" | Waman Rao → I.R. Coelho | A wall with one crack, dated 24 April 1973 |
| H. Personal Law | "Shah Sarla Danially Shayara's Sabarimala" (SSDSS) | Shah Bano → Sarla Mudgal → Danial Latifi → Shayara Bano → Sabarimala | Bookends: starts with "Bano," almost ends with "Bano" again |
| I. Free Speech | "Romesh Kept it Balanced till Phones got Tapped, Shreya got Struck, Swamy Survived, Anuradha got her Bandwidth back" | Romesh Thappar → Kedar Nath Singh → Bennett Coleman → PUCL (Tapping) → Shreya Singhal → Subramanian Swamy → Anuradha Bhasin | One continuous free-speech timeline from a press ban to internet shutdowns |
| I. (peg) | Underlined speech | Kedar Nath Singh | A red pen underlines only the violent words — read down, not struck down |
| I. (peg) | Erased wall | Shreya Singhal | "66A" spray-painted, then the whole wall erased — struck down entirely |
| J. Environment | "Oleum gassed the Ganga, a Bichhri Village sued while the Taj's Guardian forest Choked on fumes" | Oleum Gas Leak → Ganga Pollution → Bichhri → Vellore Citizens → Taj Trapezium → Godavarman → Vehicular/CNG | One toxic timeline: gas leak → river/village → marble monument → forest cleanup |
| J. (peg) | "Vellore" ≈ "yellow" | Vellore Citizens' Welfare Forum | A yellow polluter-pays warning sign |
| K. PIL | "Gupta Pushed the door, Vineet's hawala led to ADR's NOTA" | S.P. Gupta → PUDR → Vineet Narain → ADR (2002) → PUCL/NOTA | A door labelled "locus standi," pushed open, everyone walking through afterward |
| L. Recent Cases | "Ayodhya's Services got 370 Bonds broken" | Ayodhya → NCT Delhi Services (2023) → Article 370 (2023) → Electoral Bonds | Note Services precedes Article 370 within 2023 |
| M. Death penalty | "Bachan Mapped it, Mithu Made it discretionary again" | Bachan Singh → Machhi Singh → Mithu | Rarest-of-rare created, then mapped into categories, then mandatory death struck down |
| M. Education | "Pai Is Not Absolute" | T.M.A. Pai → Inamdar | Broad autonomy first, then narrowed for unaided institutions |
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