At a crucial point in Bertolt Brecht’s play, Life of Galileo, Andrea laments: unhappy the land that breeds no hero. At which Galileo, challenged and harassed, responds: unhappy is the land that is in need of a hero. Galileo was speaking truth to power – the power of the church and the state, which, when …
For many years, the discourse on democracy worldwide looked at India as an oddity, an exception. Conventional political theory suggested that a country was democratic if it was reasonably prosperous. There was no reason to assume that economic development was a pre-condition for democratic form of government, but there was sufficient evidence, through correlation, which …
