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Constitutional dilettantism, [dilelttante(n)-lover of fine arts; amateur, concentrates on nothing] - The phrase is used here to denote an abstract understanding of the constitution without reading the document in context of social realities. 'The distance between social realities and constitutional dilettantism often makes of statutory validity...' [Fatehchand v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1977 SC 1825 (1827), para 1]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)