Extra-Constitutionalism
Raghuram Rajan On Democracy And Development At The 'India At 75' Lecture Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x95dVuV9f2I
9 Jul 2022 Raghuram Rajan and India at 75: Raghuram Rajan speaking on democracy and development at the 'India at 75' lecture series, said it is in India's best interest to strengthen liberal democracy, and the country can become a "Vishwa Guru," but not based on ideas of the past. Mr Rajan added that neglect of human capital in India is problematic, and the country's slow growth is not just because of the pandemic but faltering because of failure of leadership.
RSS: Stronger Presence & Wronger Vision || Midweek Matters 34 || Parakala Prabhakar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSyIE3dt9WM
20 Oct 2021 #RSS #vijayadashamiutsav #vijayadashami2021
The Vijaya Dasami Address of the Sasanghchalak of RSS is an important annual event. His address to the would be citizens of the Hindu Rashtra that is in the making is supposed to be an occasion to guide them on how to think about the world around them. And provide them with an agenda for action on the movement's foundation day. For people like us who are beyond the pale, it offers a clue to its thinking, what is likely to inform its actions in the course of the next year, and equally importantly what it chooses to ignore from among the host of issues that bedevil India as a society and as a Republic. In this Episode, Dr Parakala unpacks the messaging contained in this year's Vijaya Dasami address of the Sarsanghchalak.
english text of address.. https://www.rss.org/Vijayadashami_2021_Speech_Eng__Final.pdf
Watch Out for Mobs at the Gate Harish Khare https://thewire.in/rights/statecraft-colombo-new-delhi-mobs Our clever Chanakyas are deluding themselves by thinking they can control and calibrate the religious madness they have unleashed.
The central concern of all democratic forces and constitutional voices ought to be to avoid a Sri Lanka-style breakdown in our country; in other words, how do we prevent an ultra-aggressive executive from tipping over from the weight of its arrogance and megalomania?
The ruling coterie is entitled to think that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presumed charisma and manufactured popularity elevate him and his government above the constitutionally-mandated structure of restraints and constraints. Yet, the primary legitimacy any prime minister in India enjoys can only be located firmly within the four walls of the constitution, and what that constitution permits or does not permit can only be decided by the Supreme Court. And, it is hardly secret that in recent years the authority of the apex court has been qualitatively mauled – partly because our judicial leadership had allowed itself to become too overawed by the political momentum of the day. Can the lost judicial authority be retrieved?
Politically instigated, electorally driven grandstanding has become all too consuming in the age of social media. The Nupur Sharma virus has infected our body politic and extreme elements in all religious communities are pushing out saner and sober voices. Our clever Chanakyas may delude themselves that they can control and calibrate the religious madness they have unleashed. But when a political crowd starts feeling and acting as if it has all the country’s institutions lined up behind it, the only corrective is provided by the mobs of the kind that have taken over Colombo. That is why it is in everybody’s interest that the Supreme Court retrieve its lost judicial authority, and do so quickly.