We all crib about the state of governance in India. However, how many of us honestly go out and vote? How many of us go out to engage the elected representatives to make them do what they have been elected for?
The issue is public office is without any degree of accountability. This is the reason why testosterone driven youth seeks politics as a calling card including their hangers on.
In the potent mix of religion (which is slowly becoming the last refuge of the scoundrel), unaccounted wealth and power of politics and unemployed dumbed down masses of India, it is slowly being raped at it's own peril.
Any probable solution comes from "participatory democracy". The much vaunted "middle class" (which includes me and you) seriously need to shed our disdain and get out to vote instead of taking it as a paid holiday. Right to recall may not be the right option; but needs an informed debate on infusing the system of accountability.
The issue is public office is without any degree of accountability. This is the reason why testosterone driven youth seeks politics as a calling card including their hangers on.
In the potent mix of religion (which is slowly becoming the last refuge of the scoundrel), unaccounted wealth and power of politics and unemployed dumbed down masses of India, it is slowly being raped at it's own peril.
Any probable solution comes from "participatory democracy". The much vaunted "middle class" (which includes me and you) seriously need to shed our disdain and get out to vote instead of taking it as a paid holiday. Right to recall may not be the right option; but needs an informed debate on infusing the system of accountability.
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