The True Face of Democracy
I HAVE never been a fan of democracy and what happened yesterday (this has happened again and again in different matters, in different styles, at different times) needs no proof that Indian democracy is nothing but crowd behaviour. A simple, innocuous looking cartoon published almost 63 years ago - on Aug. 28, 1949, depicting Dr. Ambedkar, Nehru and a laughing crowd, held up the whole day of both houses of parliament as a section of parliamentarians felt it derogatory, wanted it's immediate removal and punishment to the guilty. The cartoon had reappeared in XI Class text book of Political Science published by NCERT. in 2006. The New York Times had then commented that :Indian democracy has come of age". THE matter was first raised by Republican Parti of India (Athavale) in first week of April this year, almost six years of its publication by NCERT but raised in the Parliament only yesterday. All political parties, irrespective of ideology, criticised it so much so that eve