Ideas in India
Only real change can lie at the heart of real change. The real strength of ideas comes from belief in those ideas by enough number of people. Sometimes, ideas, when not actively applied or engaged with, loose their strength, just as body parts not exercised lose their vitality. Democracy, or democratic improvements across the world, have perhaps been a result of two forces. A widespread disenchantment with the ruling dispensation, coupled with a conviction in the elite sections of society for change. But then perhaps, this is not just the case for democracy. This is the prerequisite for any idea to gain traction in a society. An elite that has an idea or is the in grip of that idea, for ideas are the muse of the well-fed. And then there is wider group of people, who must be sufficiently disenchanted, to be willing to rally behind new ideas. Democratic ideas in India, were an elite project, which found approval in the masses as a result of the disenchantment with the Br...