Kirjahaku

THE WORKING OF GOVERNMENT IS JUST A PAPER WORK, OR IT REMAINS LIMITED TO REGISTERING THINGS, THE RULES GET ENTANGLED WITHIN THE RULES ITSELF, THE COMMITTEES WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY FORMED TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS BECOME PROBLEMS THEMSELVES, THE VERY VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS WHICH MAY HARM THE SECURITY OF NATION GET LOST INTO THE HUGE PILES OF FILES AND VISITS TO THE COURTS, THE APPOINTMENTS ON THE PROJECT WORKS BECOME A JOB OF OBLIGATION AND REVEAL THE SHABBIEST FUNCTIONING, THE PROJECTS IN THE PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS BECOME A SHOW BUSINESS BUT IS NEVER REVEALED FULLY BEFORE THE PUBLIC INSTEAD WORKS MORE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MINISTERS AND OFFICERS. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHINA AND INDIA? WHAT IS THE SOLUTION FOR ALL THESE PROBLEMS? THE FIRST AND THE FOREMOST IS THE GOVERNING SYSTEM WHICH WILL MAKE THE PEOPLE COMPETENT. FOR THIS, FIRST WE WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE CORE OF THE PROBLEM, RECOGNIZE IT, RECORD IT AND PRESENT IT BEFORE THE PUBLIC. THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS A TRUE PICTURE OF THE SITUATION AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL BY NONE OTHER THAN THE ONE WHO HAS WITNESSED IT AND HAS DARED TO REVEAL IT. IT ALSO TELLS US THE IMPORTANCE OF CHANGING IT TODAY, AT THIS MOMENT, WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE MOMENT.

WITH 99 PER SENT OF LEGISLATORS GETTING ELECTED BY A MINORITY OF ELECTORS; WITH SCORES OF THEM GETTING ELECTED ON 1520 PER CENT OF THE VOTES CAST THAT IS, BY 710 PER CENT OF THE POPULATION, HOW REPRESENTATIVE IS OUR PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM NOT INDUCE POLITICAL PARTIES TO GO ON SPLINTERING OUR PEOPLE? CAN THE COUNTRY COHERE WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE SPLINTERED? ARE THOSE IN GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE TO PARLIAMENT? OR ARE THEY THE GOVERNMENT PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY, AND THOSE WHO CONTROL THEM, CONTROL PARLIAMENT?

YOUR NEIGHBORS HAVE A SON. HE IS NOW THIRTYFIVE YEARS OLD. GOING BY HIS AGE YOU WOULD THINK OF HIM AS A YOUNG MAN AND ON METTING HIS MOTHER OR FATHER, WOULD ASK, ALMOST OUT OF HABIT, ' AND WHAT DOES THE YOUNG MAN DO ? THAT EXPRESSION, 'YOUNG MAN', DOESN'T SIT WELL AS HE IS BUT A CHILD. BUT WHAT IF THE FATHER OR THE FATHER - THE 'T' AND 'F' CAPITAL, BOTH WORDS ITALICIZED? THAT IS, WHAT IF THE 'FATHER'IN QUESTION IS 'GOD'? WHY DO THE REACTIONS AND ANSWER CHANGE FOR SO MANY OF US?

MR. ARUN SHOURIE IS A EX-CENTRAL MINISTER, WELL KNOWN NATIONALIST, UPHOLDING INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN'S FREEDOM AT THE SAME TIME. IN THIS BOOK HE STARTS WITH NARRATING HIS OWN EXPERIENCE WITH THE JUDICIARY ARM OF THE DEMOCRATIC SET UP IN OUR COUNTRY, LATER EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF DISCUSSION TO A TOPIC OF LARGER INTEREST AND CONCERN, I.E. WHETHER THE JUDICIARY SYSTEM, WHICH IS, BY AND LARGE, THE ONLY PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY HAVING SOMEWHAT CREDIBILITY AND RELIABILITY, IS ON ITS' DOWNTREND.