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Law-Breakers Being the Law-Makers: A Paradox in Indian Democracy
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) organised a webinar on “Lawbreakers being the lawmakers: A paradox in Indian democracy” on 26th March 2025. Curbing the rising number of legislators with criminal cases: Who will bell the cat? Executive or Judiciary? 1. Does repeated election of tainted politicians adversely affect good governance? 2. Is the Indian voter unaffected by the tainted background of politicians? 3. Lifetime ban or disqualification for 10 or 15 years for convicted politicians: which is appropriate? 4. Slew of Supreme Cour…
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India has to be a Pacifying State, Internally and Externally
Rao V. B. J. Chelikani I. The State is for the People: When Sir Arcot Ramaswamy Mudaliar on behalf of India, along with 49 other countries signed the Charter and joined the United Nations Organisation on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, USA, a new world order was born with the promise of lasting peace among the states. It is an appeal for ―a general international organization, based on the principle sovereign equality of all nations.‖ Since then, there are now 193 states that claim to adhere to the UN Charter. It is a declared realization t…
India should have a New Policy of External Relations
Dr.Rao VBJ Chelikani The Global Risks Report presented before the World Economic Forum at Davos-25 identifies the state-based armed conflict as one of the five risks that require immediate attention. The realpolitik approach of conducting diplomatic or political negotiations with other states is based traditionally on the assumption that each state should pursue "strategic autonomy" to satisfy its own national interests exclusively. That was how marriages were arranged among the royal families in the past. No wonder, the current PO…
Foreign Policy should Necessarily Improve Relations between the Peoples
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani At present, foreign policy is understood as a government's relations with other states through diplomats designated and installed abroad at high cost to keep the states friendly. The assumption is that each state acts in its best interests, and the job of the diplomats is to negotiate to convince the other states that it is not against their interests. In the course of time, out of experience, each state lists the friendly states, enemy states, and states that are enemies of enemy states. These diplomatic relations a…
An Appeal to the Conscience of the Indian Citizens
Dr. Rao V.B.J. Chelikani Today, the states and their governments are playing havoc in the world, bringing it to the brink of a nuclear explosion in chain, which would threaten the very existence of the human species from the planet. Even without waiting for the day of total destruction, every day, the states are attacking other states causing immense human suffering and destruction as we see in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, etc. It is not for the people implicated but for the grandeur of the states and its operators. More and more sop…
Emerging Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs)
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani It is a fact that more and more Indians are living in urban areas, mostly in Colony Welfare Associations, apartment buildings and Gated Communities. They are a hard-working middleclass forming self-governing micro-urban communities and manage themselves to increase their standard of living. They strive to be more and more productive and are maintaining a growth rate of our economy, year after year. The municipalities in which they live are receiving good revenue as property tax. They pay all kinds of direct and indirect ta…
Relations with Neighbouring States
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani People are separated by borders due to historical events, mostly by settlement of migrants, encroachments and annexations. There were, and there would be no 'natural' or ideal borders, and the people living within them are not the private property of the political state. The states have been formed historically and very often by separating people who live on the same sources of living like forests, rivers and sea-beds. People who have the same religion, language, race or tribe are separated for political reasons. A…
We the People of the Whole World
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani 1. Scourge of the World Wars: Soon after the scourge of two World Wars, the United Nations Organisation asserts the primacy of the people, wherever they are, and their aspirations for peace and development in global governance. Though the repenting states adopted the founding Charter, soon, the newly independent states started asserting their national and strategic interests and have not been very cooperative to prevent conflicts and to contribute for faster development. However, for the first time in human history, con…
Our External Relations need to be more Democratic
Dr VBJ Chelakani Executive Summary: Throughout history, foreign relations of a state have been primarily managed in the interests of the king and the royal families. Appointed Mantris and advisors have employed various diplomatic strategies, often at great expense, to advance the territorial ambitions, religious beliefs, and economic interests of the rulers. Later, the modern states have formalised the practice of appointing diplomats as professionals to negotiate and formulate foreign policies exclusively in the interest of the rulers. This…
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