‘Western democracy is totally unsuited to India and its imposition on India is the disease in the body-politic.’ Jinnah, Time and Tide (London), February 1940 As already mentioned, Jinnah believed that Western democracy was the second pillar of British imperialism (by Western democracy, he meant the form of constitution ‘under which the government of the […]
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The Traditional Democracy’ is the second part of The New State (1918) by Mary Parker Follett and comprises of 6 chapters. Capsule summary of Part II, Chapters 16-21 Equality rests on two points of view: (a) I am equal to everyone else as one of the necessary members of the group; (b) each of these
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Two years from now many of us will be celebrating the centenary of the first publication of The New State but it can easily turn into the kind of thing the author despised so much: talking about concepts without having any practical purpose in mind. Perhaps it can be helpful if we recall that
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This article was published in Dawn, The Review, sometime in April 2001. It was based on the postulate of Ayn Rand that the only fundamental alternative is non-existence or existence. Since then, I have become more mindful of the criticism Iqbal had offered on such a proposition (even before Rand had expressed it) in his
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Dawn, The Review, August 24-30, 2000 Somewhere around 430 BC in Greece, a man in his mid-fifties completed a medium sized book on which he had been working all his life. The book was about the heroic struggle between his own people, the Greeks, and the mighty empire of the Persians. But this political story
Dawn, The Review, August 10-16, 2000 It would be erroneous to call anyone the father of all knowledge, but if such a title were to be given to a single person, it would have to be Aristotle. This great old man of Greece lived more than 23 centuries ago, but his stamp can still be
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Dawn, The Review, in May 25-31, 2000 Every society carries two evils in its wake. The first is a desire for conformity. The second, arising out of it, is a vengeance against anyone who stands out as different. This is true of any society, irrespective of its form of government. Be it a monarchy or
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