I’ve asked this question to myself several times in my life. We Indians claim that we are the largest democracy in the world. Of course that is true but…
Compared to many other countries in the world, we can very well say that India is a democracy. But if you closely follow the day to day happenings in India, you will be a bit confused. Then this question arises in your mind.
The word Democracy is derived from Greek which means ‘rule of the people’. The most important aspects of democracy are equality and freedom. But the latter is being misused by a large section of people. Now in India, people with money and power can do almost anything. Money and power are very much related. If you have one, the other will come automatically. If you have both, you are the king. For those who don’t have both, making money will be the easiest way to become a king. So naturally people will have a passion towards money. When this passion becomes an obsession, it becomes dangerous. Political parties exploit this passion of people towards money to its fullest. This is the main reason for the spontaneous increase of gundas in the recent times.
We are now living in a society where freedom of speech is limited to a smaller section of people. But we claim that each one of us have this. Yes each one of us have the right to express our opinion and thoughts in a sincere way but at the risk of our precious life. The values of democracy are shattered by our own people. They don’t understand the importance of democracy. Humans will realize the value of something only when they are deprived of it. If we Indians are to realize the value of democracy, they should be deprived of it. In my opinion we should have an autocratic rule here also for at least one year (the rules should be tougher than that in Saudi Arabia, which is a Monarchy). If the ruler is good, Autocracy is better than Indian Democracy.
If the mentality of Indians does not change, we are going to reach nowhere in 2020.
