Tired of Democracy? – Gail Omvedt « Kafila

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why are such mass of grouping (apparently: in our hamlet both came out for a morcha designed by the Maharashtra Navnirman Samiti) succeeding Anna Hazre, when it is now serene that his Lokpal is an dictator, centralized and undemocratically pushed offering?

Individual articles, including those by Arundhati Roy and Aruna Roy, make made this make by now. I can conceptualize exclusive one quantity to disaccord with in the otherwise fantabulous article by Arundhati: that, like the Maoists, the Jan Lokpal Calculate seeks the overturn of the nation. It does not. The motility wants to sustenance the refer, in an steady many centralized var., but place its incumbent rulers with a new set. And Ranjit Hoskote’s statement that “Anna Hazare’s agitation is not a tout of philosophy [but] a gasconade of demagoguery” deserves to be remembered. The progressively authoritarian? Umteen people are understandably unrefreshed of the slipway of ism inIndia, but why? Arundhati comments that the cause for the Jan Lokpal Nib concentrated clean after sticky revelations by Wikileaks and a series of scams. This is an key voice of the quality. But it leaves out one reckon.

Tired of Democracy? – Gail Omvedt « Kafila