Is Democracy Populism?
Posted on September 02, 2011
Democracy is popularly defined as the rule of, for and by the people. Apporva Anand in his thought provoking article looks at the various dimensions of democracy and interrogates the role of the civil society. As a reaction to the on-going anti-corruption movement, he questions and challenges the commonly held notion where the views and opinions of a few key people come to be equated with the will of the nation…