Democracy
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Democracy depends on two principles that must coexist. Citizens have the right to question elections. Those making extraordinary allegations have a responsibility to provide extraordinary evidence. In recent years, a recurring argument has emerged in Indian political discourse: that the repeated electoral success of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…
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Why modern societies are producing more critics than builders, and why that should concern all of us Something strange has happened to modern society. As our institutions have become more complex, our explanations for how they work have become increasingly simple. Political outcomes are reduced to conspiracy. Economic challenges are blamed on a handful of…
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Davos is a place where power gathers—political power, economic power, intellectual power. You walk through its halls and meet the people who shape policy, capital, and culture. Yet this year, amid the panels and predictions, one truth kept rising to the surface: Both politics and business have drifted away from people. Democracy was built on…
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The idea of conceiving a system of governance for a society that is ruled by the people, kicked started the concept of democracy. And democratic ways of governing a society has been around for few thousands years now. Modern history tells us that, it is the Greeks who came up with the original conception of…
