Dr. Gurinder Singh Grewal examines India’s youth-led protests, the views of Generals Upendra Dwivedi and M. M. Naravane, and the importance of listening to young citizens while protecting democratic rights and peaceful dissent
It seems to me that the only time the political system of India attracts any kind of scrutiny by the Western media is during a general election campaign. Every 4 years or so India becomes billed as the world’s largest democracy and India is presented as a beacon of freedom and human suffrage. A beacon of Western secular democracy in the Orient.
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