The external affairs minister claims western media will question 'our election system, EVM, election commission, even the weather', emphasises the need to stand up to such criticisms.
At this juncture what is more important is to identify and support individuals/political parties who will uphold the democratic culture of the country.
So far what we have seen of the 2024 elections is enough to indicate that the continuous slide of democratic standards is headed toward breaching the minimum threshold of an electoral democracy.
Delivering a lecture at New York's Columbia University, where he also paid homage to a bust of Dr BR Ambedkar, Justice Gavai underscored SC's role as 'custodian of the Constitution'.
The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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