ON ELECTION-EVE - II-Skin-Deep Politics and Thick-Skinned Politicians

ON ELECTION-EVE II Skin-Deep Politics and Thick-Skinned Politicians THE coming general elections provide us with some sort of a watershed from which we can take a close look at the end-product of a nearly half-a-century old uninterrupted experiment (barring the Emergency period) with democratic institutions in India. This is considered to be an impressive record by many political observers who are disappointed by the fluctuating ebb and flow in the history of parliamentary democracy in other parts of the subcontinent.