The sisters of Sampoorna
In the summer of 2012, I took a journey through the villages of six states in India: Gujarat, Assam, Bengal, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. It was a fascinating sojourn, and I returned full...
View ArticleDemocracy begins at home
Democracy is most effectively practiced when ordinary people stop relying on a single person or even a group of elected representatives to transform their aspirations and hopes into reality. When each...
View ArticleFrom profligacy to pragmatism
Budget deliberations in the world’s largest democracy are a contentious affair. With an increasing fiscal deficit, stubbornly high inflation, and growth at its slowest since 2008, there is broad...
View ArticleThe precondition of democracy in China
Social movements against the government’s practices are gathering momentum throughout China. The one-child policy is openly being questioned, frequent protests are erupting over land acquisitions,...
View ArticleIslamism and democracy
Pakistan is often cited as a worst-case example of the role political Islam can play in the infringement of minority rights, or in fostering terrorist violence. But no Islamist party in Pakistan has...
View ArticleA wounded democracy
There is an urgent need to evangelise the compelling reality that there is a country at stake: India. It is these days fashionable in certain circles to write off India’s neighbours—Pakistan, Nepal—as...
View ArticleDynastic democracies
Dynastic politics has been a feature of human history ever since we established a division of labour and some people specialised in the provision of security and governance. Hunter-gatherer societies...
View ArticleRegenerating our democracy
On August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, addressed a newly-liberated people suffused with a sense of possibility and hope to collectively build an egalitarian and...
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Democracy in Motion
Democracy in Motion This report by Gateway House assesses India’s democratic system, one that is in constant swaying motion. To download the report, click here, or read the articles online in the...
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