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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The ruling party’s control over state institutions has come to look like ordinary governance. Reversing this capture is essential to restoring India’s constitutional democracy.
“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly,” wrote Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt in their bestselling book How Democracies Die, going on to add, “more often, though, democracies erode slowly, in barely visible steps.”
This was meant to be a warning in 2018, but the current regime in India appears to have taken this as a guidebook to make Indian democracy disappear without a sound—by institutional capture under the garb of routine governance. …
It was hoped that the lawmakers would factor in the interests of aircraft lessors in case of defaults. Instead, the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak Bill, 2024 has turned out to be a damp squib.
Even if the bill is not implemented, its introduction has already cast a shadow on the future of startups in Bengaluru.
Compared to the 2022 version, the new bill eases restrictions on companies but also strengthens the government and does less for the rights of citizens.
