Hope floats
Rural and new urban voters will ultimately save India from
the venal governing class, avers Gautam Sen.
Structural and
sociological factors are major reasons for the far-reaching socio-economic
debacle India has ended within its sixty-fifth year of independence. I have
argued earlier that the adoption of a parliamentary system of government was a
huge error of judgement. A more insulated, presidential form, would have
allowed balancing of diverse sectarian demands under the overarching umbrella
of a national vote, constraining accentuation of deeply-rooted faultlines in
Indian society. The parliamentary system has given full play to every socio-political
division and real or imagined grievance instead of allowing them to be
addressed with a combination of measured policy assuagement by rulers and
accommodation by the ruled.
The attempt to
resolve every perceived injustice completely, which must inevitably eventually
result in endless bloodshed, is in grave danger of being achieved in India. Its
long-suffering, meek people have now developed a taste for wilful truculence
and its self-seeking educated has filed for moral and intellectual bankruptcy,
forgetting self-restraint and sacrifices are imperative for nationhood. India's
ruling national elites themselves are well on the way to abandoning all
pretence of governing their fissiparous country and are engaged in shameless
personal enrichment. In this hapless melee a deeper dynamic is nevertheless in
play and understanding it might provide a better grasp of the likely fate of
India.
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