{"id":151485,"date":"2021-12-07T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=151485"},"modified":"2021-12-07T19:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:26:43","slug":"why-india-will-be-scrutinised-at-summit-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-india-will-be-scrutinised-at-summit-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India will be scrutinised at Summit for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/strong>US will host a virtual \u201csummit for democracy<\/strong>\u201d, which will bring together leaders of 100 countries, civil society and private sector representatives.<\/p>\n

The summit will convene around 3 broad themes \u2014 defending democracy against authoritarianism, addressing and fighting corruption, and promoting respect for human rights.<\/p>\n

Why India is likely to be scrutinised at the democracy summit?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Reports on Indian democracy: <\/strong>The Freedom House\u2019s \u201cFreedoms of the World\u201d index categorises India as only \u201cpartly free\u201d; Swedish V-Dem calls India an \u201celectoral autocracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rights violations in<\/strong> Kashmir<\/strong>, where India made the record for the world\u2019s longest internet ban, etc.<\/p>\n

Artists ‘freedom of Speech’<\/strong> is facing threat, and the institutions are doing very little to protect the same .<\/p>\n

There are instances of political dissent being met with the charges of sedition, anti-terrorism laws<\/strong> to silence critics.<\/p>\n

Also, usage of controversial laws, like UAPA<\/strong> to silent criticism etc.<\/p>\n

What has been India’s response to these criticisms?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Cultural relativism<\/strong> – the Indianness of India\u2019s democracy- India has the tradition of its own kind of democracy since ancient past. So, comparing Indian democracy with the western model is not an appropriate way to go about.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> This also find echo in China’s stand that, there was no \u201cuniform model\u201d of democracy, and that dismissing other forms of democracy different from one\u2019s own is itself undemocratic.<\/p>\n

The civil society<\/strong> has been accused of defaming India\u2019s image in the world by selectively raising human rights violations.<\/p>\n

Why is democracy seeing a decline all around the world?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The decline is marked by myriad policies of powerful countries like the US and other such countries in Asia.<\/p>\n

US policies: <\/strong>The US came to the region of South Asia in the name of human rights, security and the so-called global war on terror. However, it recently left Taliban to capture Afghanistan and destabilize South-Asia.<\/p>\n

Their leaders act pragmatically in choosing strategic allies and partners, irrespective of the fact whether they are democrat, autocrat, dictator or kleptocrat.<\/p>\n

The paradoxical stand of Asian countries: <\/strong>They talk of cultural relativism in their own matters, to suit their own interests, however the same model is not followed by these Asian countries when they talk about, let’s say, Afghanistan matters. For example, in matters related to gender and minority stand of Taliban.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201cWhy India will be scrutinised at Summit for Democracy<\/strong>\u201d published in The Indian Express<\/strong> on 7th<\/sup> Dec 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: US will host a virtual \u201csummit for democracy\u201d, which will bring together leaders of 100 countries, civil society and private sector representatives. The summit will convene around 3 broad themes \u2014 defending democracy against authoritarianism, addressing and fighting corruption, and promoting respect for human rights. Why India is likely to be scrutinised at the… Continue reading Why India will be scrutinised at Summit for Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-151485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704955771},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}