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Excerpts from the article of Makarand Paranjape:
Makarand Paranjape reported in Sunday Times of 3-2-2013:
“From this brief overview of the facts it is clear that the republic is not as intolerant as it is badly governed. This is a crisis not of tolerance but of governance. The political establishment had failed to uphold the Constitution and the rights that are guaranteed under it. Laws meant to safeguard the weak are often manipulated or twisted to bully or browbeat those who dare to speak inconvenient truths. The powers vacated or abused by an ineffective executive are only partially compensated for by an interventionist judiciary, an over-active press, or a popular uprising like Anna Hazare’s.”
Excerpts from the article of William Bissel reported in Sunday Times of 3-2-2013
“As Thomas Kuhn has said in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, we are facing a challenge that is the result of paradigm shift where the evidence of the failure of our concepts of governance stare us in the face. And yet, in the avalanche of evidence that speaks of this failure, the system remains paralysed applying praradigms of governance that will no longer suffice.
So, how does the class of 2014 begin to put in place the foundations of a new system of governance?
I believe that such a system will have to be built on a new paradigm of measuring overall wellbeing using tools that allow government to create a holistic view of what the elements of wellbeing are: access to security (specially for women), clean air, safe drinking water, reliable sewage facilities, access to a good nutrition for all, schools that teach, colleges that skill.”
