[quote name='Capt Manoj Singh' date='08 September 2011 - 02:40 AM' timestamp='1315429360' post='112774']
I have always wondered if Democracy, Parliament and legal systems that we inherited from the the British Raj were in fact appropriate to our country. If the so called Babus, morons and scums that you mention have shamelessly continued to run the country for a greater part of 64 years isn't it about time we start to question the very system that allows them the privilege to govern the country?
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How true, but isn't a question like whether democracy is appropriate for our country (and whether other forms of governance will better serve) based on the faulty assumption that forms of governance we know of are the final end products, and we have a choice among them? They are NOT the final end-products -- they are outcomes of political philosophies, evolving, with warts and all.
Its all about checks and balances to contain the natural tendency of unfair transgressions by one small set of privileged humans (by birth, accident or mandate) into the "well-being" of the rest of society.
IMO, one glaring mistake that the framers of our constitution made was that they assumed that the political class, in times to come, would be as "nationalistic" and realtively "vice-free" as they were.[/size]
I have always wondered if Democracy, Parliament and legal systems that we inherited from the the British Raj were in fact appropriate to our country. If the so called Babus, morons and scums that you mention have shamelessly continued to run the country for a greater part of 64 years isn't it about time we start to question the very system that allows them the privilege to govern the country?
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How true, but isn't a question like whether democracy is appropriate for our country (and whether other forms of governance will better serve) based on the faulty assumption that forms of governance we know of are the final end products, and we have a choice among them? They are NOT the final end-products -- they are outcomes of political philosophies, evolving, with warts and all.
Its all about checks and balances to contain the natural tendency of unfair transgressions by one small set of privileged humans (by birth, accident or mandate) into the "well-being" of the rest of society.
IMO, one glaring mistake that the framers of our constitution made was that they assumed that the political class, in times to come, would be as "nationalistic" and realtively "vice-free" as they were.[/size]