A diverse country can never succeed in a democratic set up, that too a parliamentary democracy. Its so easy to divide people based on three aspects : caste, religion and region. This produces leaders of communities/regions etc who will essentially become over powerful. Thats exactly what has happened in India.
We have not reached even a quarter of our potential. If india had a strong dictator like Sardar Patel or even Modi ( though i hate his divisive politics), we would have been a developed country
RE:Democracy is over rated
by pearl virgin on Dec 20, 2007 01:07 PM Permalink
if godhra is national shame what about Bombay blasts , coimbatore blasts , kashmir issues, malgoan......etc....
RE:Democracy is over rated
by anand datar on Dec 20, 2007 11:16 AM Permalink
Though Indian democracy is the best example of 'how a democracy should not be', still we should stick to it and try to improve it by bringing in new, young deserving politicians well educated and with right vision. There should be some conditions on eligibility for a person to stand for elections. Age and education has to be the first ones followed by character !
RE:Democracy is over rated
by Bhupinder Singh on Dec 20, 2007 08:59 AM Permalink
indian need army like politician who need to dependant over diverse community, religion caste for support, they should president form of govt,,, for three year terms,,,the present parliamentary democracy totaly failed to bring any change in mindset of bureacracy,and politician,,we have become the victim of catch -22 ,,neither we can change, nor we can avoid the downfall of system,,,,
