Nice article. Hope more and more Indian's can read this to understand the true nature of Indian political philosophy - whether it is Democracy or Bureaucracy.
However, I must argue that most of the democratic countries (including the big names such as US, UK, Germany, France and Australia) are suffering from the changing nature of democracy and political philosophies leaning towards bureaucracy. If we look at the American policies the US has agreed upon in the last decade or so, we will notice that the government officials make most of the decisions. Most of these decisions are in fact taken by the non-elective bodies (such as the dept. of state, sumpreme courts and police authorities). Most of these decisions help the ruling elected body - politically, financially and religiously.
The Indian non-elective bodies (such as the office of collectors, commisioners and judiciaries) have been proved to have made many decisions in the favor of the people. For example, people like comm. Rao, TN Seshan, Justice Krisnamurthy have made some bureaucratic and moody decisions on their own whims and thoughts, but many of them have proved out to be wonderful for the people.
