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The 1990s marked the zenith of democracy's ascent in its relatively short modern history. Through liberalisation, privatisation, and glo...

Democracy functions not merely through institutions but through a habit of mind. It requires citizens who examine their experiences, questio...

Humanism is the crux of modernism, or of the modern age. It is the centrality of the human person in human imagination. The grand ideas whic...

There could scarcely be better news for us Indians at the close of the year than India rising to become the world’s fourth-largest economy ...

The results of the Bihar election are still a few days away, but what is already clear is that democracy itself has won more people. The rec...

The UN system was designed to function only in a perfunctory democratic manner. In reality, it was built on domination and patronage by a fe...

I am not sure whether the current manifestation of the American political system reflects a systemic decline or merely a temporary ebb. The ...

Respect for human dignity is the essence of democracy. If you care for your dignity and believe in human dignity, you do everything possible...

Democracy brings in some maturity in the citizens on its own. It works to its fullest in a libertarian order but even in discrepant settings...

Observers note that there is a democratic slide globally. This I find a misdirected approach. Such observers fallaciously identify democracy...

No matter how large and resourceful land they command, authoritarian regimes face their nemesis after a dazzling performance. As it happened...

National democracy, to me, should be seen as a continuous discourse on what is in the best interest of the nation, an individual, communitie...

  Democracy is the final stage of human evolution for the world as it exists today. The foreseeable future is about its expansion in the wor...

Democracy is the antithesis of absolutism. And, therefore democracy itself cannot be about perfection. Democracy though refines the conduct ...

 A bird called democracy was in the egg in the 18th century. It underwent a  century-long hatchling phase, the 19th century. During the firs...

I reiterate, as I find it necessary to do, that democracy is a by-product of capitalism. It was when capital (money) became the lifeblood of...

You know the law of gravity and you also know that the rocket science is a different ballgame. You know democracy as a principle but the d...

Amidst us, the general understanding of the democracy is genetically determined. The primitive man who sits in the human genes identifies ...

Democracy has never been on a strong footing globally. It kept on emerging and vanishing from different countries. And the so called stron...