In Search of Utopian Democracy... Not in Russia... Not in North America... Not in China... WHERE...?

It has been 70 years since India and Pakistan 

emerged as independent countries... and threw 

away colonial rule...

One man, one vote is a sham of democracy... and our shame...

And,Trump just called India "the world's largest democracy..." in his Afghanistan Speech...                                                         

Love-fest... of leaders...


Indeed... at times

India euphemistically... figuratively... 

metaphorically is called "the largest 

democracy in the world..."

But, Democracy is not merely a large voting 

base and "one man, one vote..."

Indian democracy is still deformed...  

• The Caste System... Hinduism: The Caste System--(groups assigned by birth not personality)... The Hindu conception of the social order is that people are different, and different people will fit well into different aspects of society. It is indeed a class structure that is determined by birth.                                              Loosely, it means that in some societies, if your parents are poor, you're going to be poor, too. Same goes for being rich, if you're a glass-half-full person...
• There are too many illiterate in India...  India has by far the largest population of illiterate adults... numbering 287 million... and amounting to 37 per cent of the global adult illiteracy... The United Nations report highlighted the huge disparities existing in education levels of India's rich and poor...
• The socioeconomic situation is miserable in India... One of my economic professors  in one of his lectures prophesied, "an underdeveloped country will have an underdeveloped democracy..."    

New Delhi (CNN) India's latest Socioeconomic and Caste Census paints a stark picture of widespread rural poverty and deprivation, Of the 300 million households surveyed, an overwhelming majority (73%) live in villages. Of this rural population, less than 5% earn enough to pay taxes, only 2.5% own a 4-wheeler vehicle and less than 10% have salaried jobs. Not only does rural India have miserable statistics on income and asset ownership, its literacy rates are low. Only 3.5% of students graduate and around 35.7% of residents can't read or write. It comes as no surprise that the bulk of the Indian population is still overwhelmingly poor. Past surveys and experts have continued to emphasize the chasm between the two disparate pictures of India -- one that owns ambitious space and nuclear programs, and boasts of billionaires and information technology prowess, and the one in the villages, of which 92 million households (51%) earn their living by manual labor.

A society that has a poorer class... cannot function as a proper

democracy as the people will be bribed very easily... 

A society which has a large illiterate base... cannot function in 

democratic norms... as the population will be easily lulled by 

the rhetoric of demagogues and false promises of politicians...

In a society, where caste like racist norms prevail... in which 

symbols of discrimination and repression prevail... in which 

colour of ones skin determines acceptability... determines rules 

of social mobility... cannot be democratic... after all, democracy

appreciates equality, fraternity and the pursuit of happiness 

for ALL...

A society which gyrates to sexist norms... where women are 

paid less and appreciated less... and abused more... cannot be 

considered democratic... Check the sorry statistics below...

                        
               In India a child under 16 is 

raped every 2.6 hours     

 and    
                 

 a child under 10 every 

13 hours...

A ten-year old rape victim who was denied an abortion has given birth in northern India.

The 10-year old delivered a baby girl via Caesarian section... Both the girl and her baby are in stable condition... 

There are currently 27 sitting judges, against a maximum possible strength of 31. There is only one lady sitting judge. As per the Constitution of India, Supreme Court judges retire at age 65.

Jagdish Singh Khehar is the current Chief Justice of India, after T. S. Thakur retired on 3 January 2017.

The girl was forced to have the baby after India's Supreme Court rejected the family's plea for an abortion three weeks ago, based on the opinions of eight doctors and an examination of the girl...

The scale of abuse in India A child under 16 is raped every 155 minutes, a child under 10 every 13 hours More than 10,000 children were raped in 2015 240 million women living in India were married before they turned 18                                    53.22% of children who participated in a government study reported some form of sexual abuse 50% of abusers are known to the child or are "persons in trust and care-givers"

... And how much Western societies in Europe and North America... resemble the deformed society and democracy of India...?

You'll be the judge and the jury and the executioner too...