In the context of India, which one of the following is the correct relationship between Rights and Duties?

The answer is A. Rights and duties are correlative: a right held by one person implies a corresponding duty on another person or on the State to respect it. My right to life obliges everyone else not to take it, and the State to protect it. Rights do not float free of obligations.

• B is wrong. Rights are socially recognised and enforced, not independent of society. Article 19 freedoms are exercised within reasonable restrictions set by the State in the interest of public order, morality and others' rights.
• C is wrong. It sets up a false contest. Part III of the Constitution gives rights, and Article 51A (inserted by the 42nd Amendment, 1976) lists fundamental duties. Personality develops through both.
• D is wrong. Stability of the State depends on both rights and duties. A state that suppresses rights for the sake of duties loses legitimacy, and one with rights but no duties loses cohesion.

Mains angle: the rights-duties link comes up in questions on citizenship, the nature of fundamental duties (non-justiciable, unlike rights enforceable under Article 32), and the balance between individual liberty and social order.

Trap: students pick C or D because duties sound like the nationalist or moral answer. The question asks about the logical relationship, and that relationship is correlativity.