INDIA POLITICAL VILLAINY

India has entered the new Millennium without the aura of the much-touted millennium. Indian democracy is shallower and hollower now than a decade ago. If India has to develop into a full-blown democracy instead of merely gloating over sustaining democracy as its greatest achievement India ought to strengthen its democratic structures and institutions and make concerted efforts for clean corruption-free efficient secular transparent and people-centric governance rapid expansion of civil space for rapid secularization and democratization of state and society with secular public institutions mediating between both equip and energies the judiciary for expeditious justice delivery especially for the masses who cannot afford to spend and cannot afford to wait; and protect and uplift the weaker sections from poverty illiteracy unemployment and social oppression. As the nation has been caught between the two evils Congress and BJP team-Annas anticorruption surge launching of the Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal who played a major role in team-Anna the AAPs stunning performance in the Delhi Assembly elections held in December all happened in quick succession. The AAPs model politics being tried out in Delhi and expected to be tried out in Parliament through the Lok Sabha elections will decide the nature of the future of Indian democracy. There is much to be said in favour of and expected from the AAPs alternative politics. For this understanding the perception of reality is as important as understanding the elusive reality itself. That is best done by identifying the fault lines in governance the perfidies of the governors and the pitfalls of the governed through critiquing the system seeing it through the common mans looking glass. This book is a critique of the political scenario prevailing today as seen through the common mans looking glass.