Democracy as we experience it in India is a ‘fake self surrender’ (farzi aatma samarpan) to a system that is slowly throttling the very tenets of the constitution, said Dr Nandini Sundar, eminent sociologist and author. Professor Sundar, who teaches at the Delhi School of Economics delivered the second Vinay Kanth Memorial lecture organised by […]
From our school days we were told that democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the hands of people and exercise by them or by their representatives under a free electoral system. But after coming into a practical world; I feel that the term democracy is becoming vague […]