“Is Indian Democracy Alive and Kicking?”

India, standing tall on the four pillars of democracy namely Legislature, Judiciary, Executive, Media and considered the largest democracy in the world is a nation of varied religions, cultures etc., a nation where every second person is said to have a different opinion about every second thing. Here, if people really want to offer anything for free that would be their opinions, views, ideas or even solutions. Yes, we are best at exercising our right to freedom of speech but is that all? Is this the best thing we are doing as the largest democracy in the world? Yes to some and no to some and rest might not even have an idea about what the word democracy actually means.

Democracy well by definition means the government by people in which all citizens together have the right to determine the public policy, laws and actions of state with everyone having an equal opportunity to express their opinion. Away from the definition, democracy to a common man means practicing the voting rights and of course expressing their opinion.

It seems vital to talk about the evolution of democracy before talking about its present state in the country. On the eve of end of British Raj in the nation there occurred many problems in implementing he institution of democracy due to the caste system, linguistic problems, illiteracy etc.. but somehow overcoming these problems India has sustained to be the largest democracy of the world. It has remained a question of debate amongst the scholars whether it was the development that lead to the democracy in India or was it the democracy that has lead to the whatever development we have till now?

And to some like me it might just have been the frustration of being ruled by British for almost over 300 years that people for once wanted to have a say in the nations welfare and their own too. It might not have been a well understood concept to many but it sure was an assuring one. Assurance of a better living, assurance of liberty of many