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Killing Democracy in India Through Lateral Entry Into Civil Services
Modi/RSS/BJP killing democracy in India: appointing senior bureaucrats without procedure established by law.
The DoPT published an advertisement inviting applications for the ten posts at the le…
Violence of the State is the Antithesis of Democracy #SterliteProtest
Why is it wrong to kill protesting people?
In Tamil Nadu, at least 12 people died after the police (and some sources claim that sharpshooters) opened fire on the protesters for closing the smelt…
Politics in Democracy
In India, the Brahminical system is always trying to create the bipolarity in politics, the voters have either this or that choice. They do not have a plethora of choices to choose from, at least a…
Rape of Democracy – RSS/BJP’s Unholy Rule in Karnataka
Democracy is keeping India intact and as one nation. What is common between the person from the Tamil Nadu and the person from Uttar Pradesh is their being citizens of this country as granted by th…
Buddhism and Democracy – Why Conversion?
In 1941, Babasaheb Ambedkar wrote an important article in Janata (The People) in which he articulated the life and mission of the Buddha on the eve of Buddha Jayanti. In that article in Marathi, he…
Social Media and Democracy
In the democracy, the ballots are cast to express the opinions and preferences. They represent the choices of the people for selecting who would govern them. A ballot is therefore not just a paper,…
What is Democracy and What are the Ways to Achieve it?
Democracy has many meanings and many definitions. It is just not the political, but deeply economic and social. It is not just the form of organizing people politically, but also socially and econo…
Dr. Ambedkar and Democracy – An Anthology
Jaffrelot and Narender Kumar edited select passages from the vast ocean of Ambedkariana that relates to Dr. Ambedkar’s thoughts on Democracy. It is a useful addition to the corpus of the literature…
Death of Secularism and Judiciary – Saffronization of Indian Democracy
It grieves me to write about the bad time of largest democracy of the world. Unfortunate and danger time the for Indian democracy already came after BJP/ RSS government achieve the political power …
Independence of Democratic Institutions in India under Threat
Democracy as a concept is the interrelated set of ideas and democracy as a working model is the set of interconnected but independent institutions. The idea of democracy can be looked at from vario…
New Lessons in Democracy – Coming Soon to Schools Near You
If you are a political party running a government in a ‘free’ and ‘democratic’ country but interested in being in power forever (some call this aspiration “fascist” and others mild it down to “auth…
Islam and Democracy – Can Indian Muslims Pave a Way for Real “Islam” and thus Democracy
The Economist covered a special report on Islam and Democracy in its current edition. It is interesting to read the developments in the Islamic world and its analysis from the point of view of the …
RSS/BJP Is Destroying Democracy through Overt Populism and Covert Dictatorship
The RSS/BJP is the “Brahmin-Bania” fort. The RSS was started by the Brahmins, for the Brahmins, and it truly for Brahmins. So when the RSS/BJP came to power in the disguise of a coalition to make I…
Civil Rights Movements, Democracy, and Buddhism
The Scheduled Caste constitutes 20 percent of India’s population according to NSSO. It translates into 240 million people. This is a big number, judged on the basis of the population of other count…
The BSP, Marginalisation by Media and BSP’s Quest for Democracy
The great Indian caste system marginalises not only the human beings but also the institutions created by them. This marginalisation creeps creepily into media as well. The media marginalises with …