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Saturday, April 02, 2005
Fine hardware, faulty software
Ramachandra Guha writes in the Telegraph that the denial of an American visa to Narendra Modi might actually spark some useful introspection about "the continuing degradation of our democratic institutions". Guha writes:
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[T]he insults of the Americans should provoke us to bridge the gap between what the late Nani Palkhivala once called “a first class Constitution and a third class democracy”. For while India still retains the “hardware” of democracy — a multi-party system, regular and reasonably fair elections, free speech and free movement of people — the “software” of democracy has become badly corroded over the years, in four respects in particular.
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