> It seems to me the democracy experiment in India can collapse some time in the near future. As an indian, I am still optimistic. As these farm protests shows

> It seems to me the democracy experiment in India can collapse some time in the near future. As an indian, I am still optimistic. As these farm protests shows, our democracy still has life despite a government that has scant regard for it. Despite the hiccups in the past (dismissing of an elected communist government in a state and a short emergency that suspended elections and most democratic rights), democracy has thrived till the last 6 years. What this government has done is exposed all the huge shortcomings in our democratic institutions that has allowed it to control and dominate it, thus weakening our democracy. As long as we don't allow the current party in power to totally subjugate our democracy (like Hitler did with Germany), we can still repair our democracy. (As the right-wing in power in US and India showed, democracy in the US is more resilient than India's because the democratic institutions of the US were stronger. This is where India needs to focus. Also note that one of the propaganda of the party in power is to show that democracy is totally dysfunctional in India, because that is the only way they can find support to change the constitution to "fix" it.)