On Sunday the 13th, the headlines in all the Indian newspapers and TV news channels screamed that COP21 had achieved a historic climate deal in Paris. Not just that, India’s Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar announced, “we are happy—it takes care of India’s concerns.” Really?! Surely, this is something created by the Western powers; and the Indian media and climate commentators are only too happy to buy their hokum. Are we blind or just plain ignorant? Everything that is central to reining in the extraordinary climate crisis has been shoved into the preamble. We at least should be familiar with that term for we have it in the Constitution. They are laudable objectives but 65 years have gone since they were written into the Constitution and they are still sitting pretty.