A Primary Democratic, Secular and Social Community: the RWA
Dr. Rao V.B.J. Chelikani I. In the past, human communities evolved into various forms, including tribal, hierarchical, caste-based, and religious communities. Buddhist literature, however, mentions Republican communities at the time of the Buddha, but provides no details about this noble experiment in human relations. Within the community, kinship has been the common bond with good neighbourly cooperation. As the communities expanded and multiplied themselves, all kinds of human relations were governed by hierarchical powers. Among them, polit…
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…
We need more Democracy, not more Nationalism
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani It is too late to start cultivating ‘political nationalism’ in India now, which never existed in the past. The concept of nationalism has already been tried elsewhere in Europe with catastrophic consequences, and discarded after much bloodshed. In history, for that matter, no pure nation ever existed, and all political states are a concoction of varied people who moved in and settled at different dates. All human beings have always been settlers, ever since they started coming out of the forests in search of plain lands…
Why Do We Have Low Levels of Human Development & Social Development?
Dr VBJ Rao Chelikani Normally any emerging national economy in good management should grow in double—digits, almost mechanically, without having to acknowledge the genius of any particular finance minister. China, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and all the South-East Asian countries, which have initially performed ‘economic miracles’ are good examples of this phenomenon. This has happened, already in the case of West European countries after the end of the 2nd world war. They enjoyed three decades of unprecedented growth and prosperity. …
Citizen to be More Active as a Consumer
I. Political Democracy is Unable to Deliver Political democracy is not a complete democracy, though we have taken up ordering political relations among human beings as the most pressing problem since human security and the security of the groups has been dependent upon it from times immemorial. Political democracy has been, essentially, devised to avoid the bad experiences of the arbitrary rule of the kings and dictators in ancient, medieval and early modern societies i.e. till the 20th century. Though it has been accepted as a uni…
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