Former V-P was talking at launch of book by ex-law & justice minister Ashwani Kumar. Ansari described it as a 'set of writings depicting a contemporary vision of our democracy'.
In 'Nepal', Lok Raj Baral unpacks the idea and practice of democracy in the South Asian nation, disentangling the tensions and balances between representation and governance.
Speaking at 15th Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture, Bai highlighted 4 purported problems of democracy & how a hybrid democratic-meritocratic model could be better for long-term governance.
AP Shah was once in love with Savarkar's poetry and his grandfather was the president of the Hindu Mahasabha. Today, he laments the rise of Hindutva politics.
Addressing students at Jamia Millia Islamia, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said education is important for the growth of society & asked the youth to empower themselves.
It is because of this very unfounded self doubt, India has been labeled a 'laggard democracy,' & China, Japan, Korea etc sped past us in the decades after the end of WWII.
Popular discourse on Nehru’s premiership varies from hagiographic to critical, and has been reduced to slogans. India’s post-independent history is far more nuanced.
To delegate the power at lower levels from the upper levels, empowers people. But successful implementation requires honest candidates to be elected by people at various levels.
The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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