“People get the government they deserve.”
Do you really mean that people of India deserves Congress? This is a popular fallacy which is repeated time and again. Congress has less than 30% of the votes including that of its allies. It is so obvious that it does not deserve to rule. However, the whole concept of democracy has been distorted in India. I have many times heated debate when I say that there is no democracy in India. Democracy has to have a Constitution certain parts of which can not be altered. India does not have that as a servile judiciary has distorted its basic tenets. For example, equality. We know that in India certain people are more equal than others and now people of certain states like Tamilnadu are more equal than others. Democracy has to have independent judiciary. In India, Supreme Court judges are corrupt and their only interest is about the assignment that they would get after retirement. It has to have independent Press. Nira Radia tapes have exposed the ugly truth that most so called frontline journalist are engaged in political prostitution.
I believe that the kind of leadership that India got at the time of independence was very unfortunate as it is the leadership that sets the direction. India was singularly unlucky that we got womanizer Nehru and Sardar Patel died very young. India would have been very different under Sardar Patel who was the one of the brightest man and a true statesman.
Further, unlike USA where the president vacates the office after 8 years, India had the misfortune of Indira ruling for many years and she was very wile and corrupt politician who killed the nascent democracy.
Even a country like Sri Lanka could sort out its internal problem even though it took them a few decades caused by India's meddling. They have ensured the rule of the majority i.e., right minded, right thinking and law abiding citizens.
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There is something called "G mein dum"....which India/Indians don't have. That is because India/Indians have always be ruled by others... so the people have developed what is called the slave mentality which they cannot come out of....
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Originally posted by Nightmare
“People get the government they deserve.”
Do you really mean that people of India deserves Congress? This is a popular fallacy which is repeated time and again. Congress has less than 30% of the votes including that of its allies. It is so obvious that it does not deserve to rule. However, the whole concept of democracy has been distorted in India. I have many times heated debate when I say that there is no democracy in India. Democracy has to have a Constitution certain parts of which can not be altered. India does not have that as a servile judiciary has distorted its basic tenets. For example, equality. We know that in India certain people are more equal than others and now people of certain states like Tamilnadu are more equal than others. Democracy has to have independent judiciary. In India, Supreme Court judges are corrupt and their only interest is about the assignment that they would get after retirement. It has to have independent Press. Nira Radia tapes have exposed the ugly truth that most so called frontline journalist are engaged in political prostitution.
I believe that the kind of leadership that India got at the time of independence was very unfortunate as it is the leadership that sets the direction. India was singularly unlucky that we got womanizer Nehru and Sardar Patel died very young. India would have been very different under Sardar Patel who was the one of the brightest man and a true statesman.
Further, unlike USA where the president vacates the office after 8 years, India had the misfortune of Indira ruling for many years and she was very wile and corrupt politician who killed the nascent democracy.
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Manjeet Singh
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Originally posted by icecube
There is something called "G mein dum"....which India/Indians don't have. That is because India/Indians have always be ruled by others... so the people have developed what is called the slave mentality which they cannot come out of....
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Manjeet Singh
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Why India is a Weak Power - b/c the top job is reserved for a family??
Why no outrage against Gandhi (Feroze Gandy aka Feroze Khan) family
Dictators' Sons, From Egypt to Libya, Are Doomed
Hosni Mubarak is falling from power in Egypt partly because he refused to heed one of history’s hidden lessons: Dictators shouldn’t have sons.
Most do. That often hastens their downfall or that of their nations.
Egyptians might have been willing to accept their lot for a while longer if the ailing Mubarak had not made it clear he intended his son, Gamal, to succeed him in power. Of all his arrogant acts, none insulted his people more than his insistence that of the 80 million Egyptians, Gamal Mubarak was best qualified to lead the country. The plan was for him to rise to power not by popular vote, but only because his father wished it that way.
Barely a week after protests exploded in Egypt, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen publicly promised that he would stop maneuvering to place his son, Ahmed, in the presidency after he departs. At the same time, King Abdullah of Jordan, who succeeded his father on the throne, sacked his government in an effort to shore up his regime. His monarchy seems secure for the moment, like that of his namesake in Saudi Arabia, but the idea that sons have the right to succeed their fathers in positions of near absolute power has ever fewer supporters.
A few sons of dictators have managed to hold on to the family business, notably Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Most, however, fail abjectly. Africa is especially rich with examples. The sons of Idi Amin, Daniel Arap Moi, and Jomo Kenyatta could not manage the power their fathers tried to give them. Closer to home, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier ascended to the Haitian presidency after his father’s death but could not keep it; his effort to return to power is severely handicapped by people’s memories not only of his corruption and brutality, but that of his father.
In some countries, even the prospect of dynastic succession is now enough to ignite popular outrage. This might give pause to dictators like Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, two of whose sons are said to be leading candidates to succeed him after he is gone. Even if they do not manage to take and hold power, they are examples of the dissolute lives that sons of dictators often lead.
One of Gaddafi’s sons, Saif, was investigated for arms smuggling in Germany. Another, Hannibal, set off a diplomatic row with Switzerland when he was arrested in Geneva on charges of abusing his housekeeper. His résumé also includes charges of attacking policemen in Italy, driving his Porsche against traffic and at high speed on the Champs-Élysées while intoxicated, and causing police to be summoned to Claridges Hotel in London when his wife was heard screaming in their room (she later said a fall had caused her cuts and bruises).
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Originally posted by sguk
see this Excerpt
Why India is a Weak Power - b/c the top job is reserved for a family??
Why no outrage against Gandhi (Feroze Gandy aka Feroze Khan) family
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