The Buzz & Beyond

Any journey down the memory lane is enjoying. I played only street cricket still, when we won the Prudential Cup in 1983, I felt as if I were a part of the Indian team! Till 1979, no team had won the West Indies in the Prudential Cup. When Sri Lanka scored a point against West Indies, courtesy rain spoilt match, Sri Lankan captain Tenekon joked that Sri Lanka was the first team to score a point against West Indies. June 9, 1983, the World Cup-3 started and produced two great upsets of the cup. Zimbabwe aided by Duncan Fletcher beat Australia. The second upset involved India who had won only one match till then beating East Africa in 1975. The game between India and Windies started late due to rains. Yashpal scored 80+ runs and it was Sandhu’s swing sent Greenidge back home. Earlier, Sandhu dismissed Greenidge in a similar fashion at Trinidad. Then it was Madan and Binny who wrapped the rest of the team on 10th of June (as the play continued for the next day) not before Roberts and Garn...

Democracy is a form of Governance that is run by the whole population or ruled by the representatives of the population. Or you can say “A Government of the people, for the people by the people.” The main objective of a Government is to provide good governance. The objective of good governance is to provide the citizens freedom, prosperity, peace, protection of their rights, their participation in governance etc., Good governance has nothing to do with the form of governance. One has to make it clear what attributes the success and failure of the form of Governance – the System or the people who run the system. Irrespective of the problems with the system, if one is determined to provide results, he will. If he decided to exploit the limitations of the system, then he will. When this exploitation happens in democracy, it is the not the ruler alone to be blamed but also its citizens! I knew little about other countries so I discuss on Indian democracy only. Whether democracy is practic...