India at 75: Much of India's institutional arrangement is for show only

Even after 75 years, India remains politically feudal and colonial bureaucratically

This is the last in a six-part series in the run-up to the 75th Independence Day on August 15, 2022. It explores how institutions—Constitution, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary, Economic—have worked since independence.

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Countries are judged by, amongst other things, how honestly they allow the people to choose their representatives in the legislatures and how well they hold their governments and their employees to account. Those who drafted the Indian constitution did make the necessary institutional arrangements. Indeed, India is not lacking in such