INTERVIEW | Parakala Prabhakar: ‘Cylinders to the poor, airports to a buddy’
No single political chief can finish a democracy; no single political chief can rescue one both,” write Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zilblatt in How Democracies Die: What Historical past Reveals About Our Future. In some ways, this sums up the India of at present, as political economist Parakala Prabhakar concludes in The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Disaster.
Prabhakar doesn’t mince phrases or attempt to deflect blame away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He calls him staggeringly incompetent and factors to the utter lack of creativeness in governance that has pushed an enormous variety of individuals beneath the poverty line.
Prabhakar, who was in Chennai to launch his guide in late July, gave Frontline a hard-hitting interview and repeatedly went again to the theme of democracy being a shared accountability of all residents, saying: “It’s us, as a individuals, who should finally take the blame.”
You’ll be able to learn the interview right here.
