Slice of History
Indian Democracy in the 70s History is like shadows, sometimes they are behind us and sometimes they are right in front of us, but never far from us. If we are indeed part of a connected whole, then our present is a linear or, non-linear by-product of our past. Opportune to add the disclaimer that we read in investment products – “past performance is not a guarantee of future results”, but past performance does provide the data points to assess the turn of events in the present and some contours into the future. Well, this small prologue was a mood-builder to the content I cover in a much abridged form in the script below. It is a discovery into the political fabric. 1 Politics, which was for me a delirious cocktail of tainted individuals (with sparingly few exceptions in the mass) and rusted bureaucracy – needed a redefinition. The genesis to this quest lies in the Lokpal movement, which has created a social churn unseen in scale, for decades now in Ind...