There is a news that is doing its round everywhere. And this news although has been reported in some sections of the press in India and abroad is not a front page headlines and that is what is more worrisome. The point is that front page headline grabbing news has a tendency to capture it for the moment or at the most a week and continues only when subsequent impetus is given in the form of more such headlines. When the front page is no more fun to hear you get some lines (as decaying waste) in the inside pages and then given a quick easy burial with tons of fresh news to divert your attention away. That is how the newspapers work. Well, in the case with less attention grabbing news that are hidden in the middle pages or some indiscreet corner of the paper, there is a tendency for such news to resurface on and on again no matter even if there is no repetitive headlines or a large write up.
Well, this news that may sound 'no news' to some people is definitely news indeed. It is about the way the world democracies are functioning. There is a lot of reason to state that the health of democracy is fading in the areas or rather countries where there is a lot of assumption that the best form of governance is the democratic way. Sadly enough these very advocates of democracy are now stressing the word in a rather lesser ways than they did in the previous years. Of course it is truly a fact that unlike dictatorships a democracy has to deliver on and on again or simply lose its charm.
See the case with US with its dual party system all seems like some fantasy. The horrible recession with endless trouble both in the economic and employment sectors. The freedom given to the capitalists now backfiring with them not keeping up to the promise and made a mess of the mortgage crisis and now still failing to deliver in spite of the huge stimulus package.
The same is more or less in India too with the government not delivering on promises nor aligning with the wishes of its people even for a while. If this is the way then sadly we might see the demise of democracy in places where they sing quite proudly about while the other closed regimes are vying with one another to get some kind of democracy in place.
Well, what has exactly gone wrong with both of the largest economies of the world. For one the two party system of US has more demerits than merits and the seesaw way is not the best way perhaps. Let some of the hinges come loose then the seesaw hobbles dangerously. The other extreme is India with its innumerable parties. To shorten this article I would suggest that all democracies have a minimum of three parties in a triangular contest while keeping the maximum limit to five.
Well, this news that may sound 'no news' to some people is definitely news indeed. It is about the way the world democracies are functioning. There is a lot of reason to state that the health of democracy is fading in the areas or rather countries where there is a lot of assumption that the best form of governance is the democratic way. Sadly enough these very advocates of democracy are now stressing the word in a rather lesser ways than they did in the previous years. Of course it is truly a fact that unlike dictatorships a democracy has to deliver on and on again or simply lose its charm.
See the case with US with its dual party system all seems like some fantasy. The horrible recession with endless trouble both in the economic and employment sectors. The freedom given to the capitalists now backfiring with them not keeping up to the promise and made a mess of the mortgage crisis and now still failing to deliver in spite of the huge stimulus package.
The same is more or less in India too with the government not delivering on promises nor aligning with the wishes of its people even for a while. If this is the way then sadly we might see the demise of democracy in places where they sing quite proudly about while the other closed regimes are vying with one another to get some kind of democracy in place.
Well, what has exactly gone wrong with both of the largest economies of the world. For one the two party system of US has more demerits than merits and the seesaw way is not the best way perhaps. Let some of the hinges come loose then the seesaw hobbles dangerously. The other extreme is India with its innumerable parties. To shorten this article I would suggest that all democracies have a minimum of three parties in a triangular contest while keeping the maximum limit to five.
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