” You know, if I had 99 percent of the people bowing and scraping in front of me, and doing my bidding without question, I don’t think I would have to impose a dictatorship. It is costly to maintain an army to control a population — which is what a dictator is forced to do. So why bother being a dictator when you can easily enough win any “election.”

Absolutely spot on !
About the overhyped Indira Gandhi, an IAS officer (retired) who was an eye witness when she was going to be arrested following Shah Commission Enquiry said:
” she showed her true mean self then, spitting on the person and literally ordering him to touch her feet….”

The charlatan godmen don’t command my respect. Nevertheless, I felt elated when Rajiv Gandhi escorted by Buta Singh ( desperate to win an election) got kicked on his forehead by a “Kicking Saint Atop A Tree “

Indians have been subjugated for centuries. And that too by forces far weaker than themselves.

Why? Why? Why?

Is the answer to the above why(s) related to the following:

I will write about why democracy fails in India (and works in many other places)

Kindly explain.
Regards,

He overruled Sardar, the Army and everyone else on his China madness and was a total despot economically.

Milton Friedman has written about how, during Nehru’s time, economists and planners opposed to nehru’s asinine economic policies were muzzled or put behind bars.

Democratic he ain’t