Democracy

DailyPost 2041 TALENTED DOER AND … The underpinnings of democracy is based on talent, can be read as meritocracy, the talent which delivers, which means he is the doer and as an icing on the cake, the individual is independent. This was what democracy was intended to be at the individual level. Have we taken […]

DailyPost 2038 COBWEB OF JUSTICE – STRAY THOUGHTS Few ground rules have appeared in the Indian variant of democracy for at least a few decades now. When you are in power, the agencies of the law, instead of acting on you, will take your diktats. Whosoever controls the levers of powers, controls the levers of

DailyPost 2033 MUNICIPAL CHAOS – URBAN MISERY! Urban local self-government with democratic representation and power, was supposed to be a tool of administration, enforcement and development. Headed by Mayors, it could have become the epitome of what democracy could achieve at the local level, that too in the medium and big urban centres of the

DailyPost 2025 PREDATORY NATURE OF THE STATE! Many democratic welfare states will never fall in this trap was the presumption, but more often than not that is not the case. The common masses, the bulwark of democracies, have been feeling the predatory nature of democratic governments. That these governments are better than the dictatorship, is

DailyPost 2015 AN UMBRELLA OF TRUST & CREDIBILITY The whole of democratic mechanism is the sum total of trust and credibility in the system. This is the true value of the system. Any democracy will function well, if it has these two propellants as its regular fuel. What would these elements score on the scale