Kumar, Prabhat  <br/><br/>
“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.” — George Orwell 

 - The Journal of Governance   
 - (26), Jan, 2023: p.1-3 
<br/><br/> As India enters the Amrit Kal of its destiny, a new narrative is being pressed by a set of intellectuals and institutions that everything is not well with India’s democracy. The Economist Intelligence Unit considers India a “flawed democracy”; and Sweden’s Varieties of Democracy Institute calls India an “electoral autocracy”. The Washington think tank Freedom House rates India as only “partially free”. Yale University professor Jason Stanley says that “India demonstrates just how global ethno-nationalism, and its more violent sibling, fascism, have become”. In his two recent papers, Ashutosh Varshney argues that since 1947 India has done better as an electoral democracy, and less well as a liberal democracy. – Reproduced