China has a communist dictatorship under which decision making process is much faster whereas the administrative juggernaut in India moves at a painfully slow pace in a democratic setup.Do you think it to be a handicap?
Up to a limit only this is true.Because with all the shortcomings of democracy we are still a titan in Asia and the world.Of course communist dictatorship has its advantages. Their system is strong, they have strong policy, their decision making process is fast etc.. But Chinese people lack a very fundamental thing.and that is freedom .
We Indians develop with freedom.Our system maybe handicapped, but it is much better than a system which denies fundamental human rights!.
Not democracy but lack of dedication to nation, caste-ism, regionalism,communal-ism,administrative inefficiency, lack of coordination and lethargy affect performance. Democracy is not equivalent to inefficiency.
It is not due to Democracy but its weak will power of our politicians. As the proverb says " There is will there is a way".
If they have strong will power to serve nation, they can find the ways to do so. Apart from this, They are very much greedy for the power. Most of the politician don't want to take any pain while performing their duties(?).
china is working more efficiently and we should draw lessons from them. They also work by collective decisions. Taking collective decisions is essence of democracy but after taking decisions, these must be efficiently implemented.
Not evenly he democracy also lack of dedication to the nation, region is the major effect communality is the administrative effect, lack of coordination between literates and illiterates. Democracy is the main pointer of coordination and understanding.
I think with all its deficiencies the democratic system is still the best mainly because the alternatives we have for it are far worse.We know the fate of a totalitarian regime like erstwhile Russia which fell like a house of cards in a few months after completing its existence for neraly 70 years.China may boast of superior economic data but it can never live down the crying shame of using battle tanks against it own people to suppress dissent i.e,Tienmann Square massacre.Indian masses in general may be poor and illiterate but they have a democratic right to dethrone regime peacefully as Late Indira Gandhi learnt at her cost!
Chinmoy- Instead of comparing political systems, we must shed lethargy, sectarianism, corruption, regionalism and castism. Democracy depends on political parties. Most of our political parties except communists are based on dynastic family, caste, religion or region. As such, our democracy is sham and unreal. What we have is anarchy- neither democracy nor totalitarianism. It is necessary to underline that democracy is not equivalent to slow pace, lethargy and indecision.
I think no system is perfect and an unmitigated blessing and I do agree that the way our system functions there is tremendous scope for improvement as Denmark too has a democratic system and this tiny European ranks at the top of the table in terms of transparency and almost corruption-free.
Chinmoy- Let us agree that our system is formal and not real democracy. The real democracy implies powerful citizens who elect representatives who are simply servants of people and not their bosses or idols.
Chinmoy- Most countries have democracy at least in format. China also claims democracy which is called 'Peoples' Republic of china'. Presently, there is no particular leader all powerful as Mao Tse Tung was. The decisions are taken in their parliament. As regards party system, they have one party system. India has multi party system. Some western countries have two party system. All this is internal matter of country.
I think our multi party system is best and real democracy. there is need to eliminate money and muscle power and combat tendencies of family dynastic rule Gandhi- Nehru type, communalism, regionalism etc. The political parties should learn to respect decisions that have been passed b majority in parliament. We saw recently, that in spite of majority in favour of women reservation, this has not been passed in view of opposition by some minority. If minority overrides majority view and decision not implemented, this cannot be called democracy. Democracy means that all matters are freely discussed and approved either unanimously or by majority and when finally decided, all accept whatever be their personal views.
By raising the resistance put up by a small yet vociferous number of parties to the passing of Women's Reservation Bill,you have pointed to one of the serious deficiencies of our democracy.It is undoubtedly true that our parliamentary democratic system has been superimposed on us and the political parties and their leaders have yet imbibe the democratic spirit and evolve a democratic culture.
Chinmoy- There are three major hurdles to our democracy. Money power, muscle power and lung power. All should respect decisions of majority. If this is not done, our system will fail. The unfortunate fact is that some parties believe that whatever they desire should be accepted even though they are a very small minority. This is obviously lack of democratic spirit.
You have chosen the most appropriate words to describe the dangers that are undermining our democracy and until and unless we are able to free ourselves from these so-called 'powers' we have very bleak future as far as our democracy is concerned.
