Q.List public religious activities in your village/city. Which involve religious-freedom exercise? What if this right didn't exist?

This activity asks for a personal, local reflection, so the answer below models the kind of

reasoning a student should apply to their own observations, using representative examples of public …

A student completing this activity would typically list activities such as: a religious procession

during a major festival, communal prayers or gatherings at a place of worship, religious fairs or

melas held in public spaces, the public performance of rituals (such as immersion ceremonies or

public aarti), and community-organised religious teaching or discourse sessions open to the public.

Each of these is an exercise of the freedom to profess, practise, and openly display one's religious

beliefs and practices, protected under Article 25 (and, for organised religious groups, Article 26's

right to manage their own religious affairs and institutions).

If this right did not exist, the state would be free to prohibit, restrict, or heavily control such

public religious activity at will -- worship could be pushed entirely into private homes, festivals

and processions could be banned outright rather than merely regulated for public order, and religious …