Praneet Pathak: Modi in a Traffic Jam, and the Decaying of Our Democracy
Today the nation feels threatened, our collective security and democracy compromised – or so the media would have you believe, with the prime minister’s cavalcade having to turn back due to protests and the allegations of ‘poor security management’ it has given rise to. But in reality, this incident reveals to us the many facets of a decaying Indian democracy. Consider the following five elements.
1. Delegitimisation of protest, disagreement and dissent
The shock and furore regarding the protest being able to affect the prime minister’s route exposes our diminishing democratic sensibilities. In a democracy, our leaders are supposed to be responsible and accountable to us – and in most other democracies, that includes the leader at the helm, be it the prime minister or president.
However, there has been a normalisation of our prime minister’s inaccessibility. His reaction to being affected very slightly by as mass scale a movement as the farmers’ protest is reflection of how the prime minister, with all his pomp and paraphernalia, has become insulated from the man on the street and has no genuine interest and faith in his critics’ point of view. He sees no need to include them in the political discourse….
Bharat
Bhushan - Incitement to violence: When will Supreme Court take note?
काशी विश्वनाथ मंदिर के महंत ने मोदी, योगी पर लगाया बड़ा आरोप, सुनकर रह जाएंगे हैरान!
Mrinal
Pande: A land where no one speaks truth to power
The
Judiciary is the Defence of the Innocent. Or so we thought...
Father
Stan Swamy: I’d rather suffer, possibly die if things go on as it is
Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal's father dies of Covid day before her bail hearing // That Monday will not come, Judge Sahib
Javed Anand: On RSS reassurances to Muslim, deeds
matter more than words
Gujarati Poet Parul Khakkar Blames 'Naked King' for
Corpses Floating in the Ganga
Naxalites
should lay down their arms and challenge the ruling class to abide by the
Constitution
Some information for Israelis (and the rest of us)
Bharat Bhushan:
It suits the RSS to allow BJP to encourage defections from other parties
Swati Chaturvedi:
It Was BJP Who Made It Mamata vs Modi. Too Far
Anand K. Sahay:
The idea behind capturing power in any kind of way: fair or foul
