India: Democracy or Mobocracy?
India: Democracy or Mobocracy? As protests subsume India, the above question is being increasingly asked. While we are a democracy, we haven’t got it right as critics are put in detention, dissent silenced and majoritarian tactics used. By Shaan Katari Libby On any given day, one reads about protests raging and about how democracy is being compromised in the country. Whether the issue is Kashmir, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Bihar election outcome or farm bills, there is a growing unease that all is not well. This is often followed by a sense of utter helplessness. Democracy—that ...
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