From a 23-day hunger strike to the barricades of Jantar Mantar, Neha Bora has emerged as a striking voice of India’s youth, defending dissent, citizenship and the right to vote.
Tag: history
Ram Rajya and Secularism
Ram Rajya existed centuries before the word secularism entered political language. Yet its ideal of just rule, equal protection and the welfare of all can help us understand why secularism has become central to modern India.
The Election Commission and the Credibility of Democracy
An election can change a government overnight. But if citizens begin to doubt the institution that conducts it, the damage can reach far deeper: it can shake democracy itself.
Must Christians Prove Their Faith Is Voluntary?
When a citizen must sign a declaration before entering a church, India must ask whether freedom of religion is still a constitutional right—or a privilege that minorities must prove they deserve.
The Lathi and the Republic of India
Before Independence satyagrahis stood before a line of policemen with raised lathis. Nearly eight decades after Independence, that haunting image still asks uncomfortable questions of Indian democracy. The greatness of a democracy is measured not by the force it can command, but by the restraint it chooses to exercise.
Test of Democracy: Ram Rajya to Gandhi, Anna Hazare and Sonam Wangchuk
A government loses little by talking to peaceful protesters. It risks much by refusing to listen. For the true measure of a democracy lies not in the power a government wields, but in the dissenting voices it is prepared to hear.
