Contemporary Indian Politics

The massive poverty illiteracy and backwardness of our people can only be called a massive failure of government. This failure has had an impact on all aspects of our national life in some cases directly as in the high crime rate or the huge black economy and in other cases indirectly as in the many internal upheavals and secessionist movements. In sectors where the situation is less immediately visible it is no better; the steady deterioration of national institutions like the bureaucracy the police the public utilities the environment and our permanent natural resources and arising from all these the downturn in our defence and international status and worst of all the people's loss of faith in our institutions our government and probably in democracy itself.