There is need for proper governmental politicking and reestablishment of democratic governance, what our ancestors and forefathers called as 'Dharma'.

1. In Search Of Dharma:
Reestablishing A Truly Democratic
Governance
-Shriram.S

2. The unanswered questions
• I believe the state of monarchy as such didn’t offer a sense of
secularism to the people, who represented society.
• But was society in a position to accept it, if one was offered?
• Has the current democracy succeeded in offering this sense
(of secularism) to the society?
• This is not to say, it hasn’t, but that it has not succeeded in
the truest of sense.
• But are we, as a society, matured enough to handle this huge
responsibility, at least in a hypothetical sense?

3. Democracy, People and the Conflict
• Our society is not comprised of people.
• It is actually co-habituated by ‘groups of’ people’, each with its
own culture and customs.
• And hence our democracy, like our customs, is divided, and
worse, is opinionated.
• The power, as we know of it, is shared by a group of people in
a democracy.
• But is it the only thing that led to the downfall of monarchy?
Maybe not, for a strength that can’t be leveraged upon to
seize the opportunity becomes a bottleneck.

4. How bad is monarchy and how good is
democracy?
• The effectiveness of any governing body can only be
evaluated in comparison with its alternative.
• Modern Economics call it as an ‘Opportunity Cost’.
• A Black is recognized only because of the existence of White.
• Monarchism is not always bad, in much the same way
Democracy is not always better.
• But a society, mired in, and divided by, non-secular
forces, can never relate to the justice called Truth.
• At this juncture, democracy, as we know it, would cease to
exist.

5. Need of the hour
• The need of the hour, therefore, is not just a sense of
secularism among us, but more of a fiduciary consciousness.
• This should be complemented by proper governmental
politicking and reestablishment of democratic
governance, what our ancestors and forefathers called
as ‘Dharma’.
• But this Dharma was actually established in a monarchic age.
• Democracy thus connotes a sense of self-righteousness than
any definite style of leadership.
• The Vedas , Upanishads Bhagavath Gita and other religious
texts have taught us this.
• In that sense, Democracy, like Monarchy, should reside inside
each of us.

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