Friday, February 26, 2021

dysfunctional democracy

 If democracy is not merely holding of free and fair elections, India is no longer a democracy. 

It s now a state that is humorless,  clueless and lashes out periodically without common sense.

It cannot smile at it's own follies and charges at a funny person. 

And last month, it issued guidelines to restrict Indian universities from holding international conferences, on topics that relate to India's internal affairs. And any topic can be linked to internal affairs - politics, society, economics, security, natural and applied sciences.

Without trying to be funny, India is generating smirking laughter all around the world - with it's Chinese -like mania, for control.

After 70 years of political Independence, we are pitiless, humorless, clueless - as a society and  as administrators of ourselves. It is our fault.     

Kanti Bajpai,        Absurdist Bubble,          Times of India       Feb.20,  2021  

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