Just a thought. The damage to institutions in a decade of BJP rule will have been so thorough and awful, that whoever comes next will have to have a road map to build them back up. And I’m not sure we have those sorts of visionaries in India anymore.
India was built on the foundation of accommodative politics and coercion. Now it’s just pure coercion and bullying. There is massive distrust in all state institutions and rightly so, given how they no longer act independently of the ruling ideology.
I personally don’t think the BJP regime will last. But who knows.
What worries me at night is how to build India back and restore Democratic institutions and systems of accountability. If your systems of accountability at an compromised then it’s Lord of the Flies.
What worries me at night is how to build India back and restore Democratic institutions and systems of accountability. If your systems of accountability at an compromised then it’s Lord of the Flies.
I’m a political scientist and yes I tend to obsessively turn these issues over in my head all the time trying to figure out a third or fourth way. I think we need to keep building local democracy and keep interrogating. If we stop that we will be lost.
But what bothers me is that I can’t think of a SINGLE leader in India that can transcend region, religion and caste. I can’t think of a single leader who is thinking futuristically for the entire country.
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