Summary: Controversy broke out early this week in India when it was reported that the country's apex planning body Niti Aayog's CEO Amitabh Kant had said at an event that “tough” reforms are “very difficult in the Indian context,” as “we are too much of a democracy”. Later Mr. Kant clarified that he did not mean the way it was reported and that he was speaking in the context of reforms in India via a vis China. Whatever that was all about, the larger point I discuss here in this podcast is as to how much democracy becomes too much that it starts stalling the growth and development process in a country. Or is it that this is just an excuse used by political establishments at many places to propagate their line of thought or to hide their incompetencies and inefficiencies. India slipped 10 places to 51st position in the 2019 Democracy Index's global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited "erosion of civil liberties" in the country as the primary cause for the downtrend. Is it "too much democracy" or a "flawed" one as the index put it, that is stalling the process of reforms? Do we need more of it or less of it? Let's talk about this. Let's discuss this. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message
