Page 3 - Hindu Majority News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The Atlantic Share When the G7 group of rich democracies assemble this weekend in southwest England, they will discuss issues including COVID-19, taxes, and climate change. One item overhanging the formal agenda, however, will be the global deterioration of democracy itself, and the nation on which this question may hinge won’t be any of the hosts, but a guest invited to this year’s confab: India. Democracy’s fate there may determine its fate throughout the world. At the moment, the signs aren’t looking good—and that should be a flashing-red warning beacon for the rest of us.

State And Annihilation Of Caste (Image by Countercurrents.org) Indian state is part of Indian society and Indian society is built on caste based social order. That way state or the government can do very little to destroy the caste system because as the state is built on the caste and the caste society is controlled by the top castes – the state cannot go against the system even if some among the state runners decide to do so. So, can such a state annihilate caste whichever political party comes to the power? Alternatively, can anti-caste people b...