No we aren’t! We fool ourselves thinking we are! Sure, we have elections every four or five years, and just because we fill Parliament with elected representatives we feel we’ve done our bit for democracy. But it’s not just Parliament that has to be filled or a bigger, fancier Parliament…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.