Durga Shakti Nagpal Imbroglio
http://www.aapkarnataka.org/janasuddi/Janasuddi-1.pdf T he term Democracy originates from the Greek word dēmokratía. It means "rule of the people" and not "rule by representatives" as generally perceived. The definition implies that democracy is a system far above individuals; in fact it is collective in nature. And the key word for any collective exercise is participation. In ancient India, during Buddha’s time, such village republics existed aplenty where periodic local meetings took place in which ALL people of a locality took policy decisions. Thereafter, India went through nearly a millennium of slavery by various foreign civilizations until it gained independence in 1947. In this interim period, world over and especially in Europe and America, renaissance happened resulting in liberal thoughts taking center stage. The impact of it was that in such places democracies took root and flourished. These democracies were more or l...