#development with dignity

Indian democracy has stabilized in a twilight zone of hope and despair, by holding out the hope of socio-economic mobility for the majority, and by neglecting the utter hopelessness of a desperately poor minority … However, even for the majority this perception of upward mobility mostly turns out to be an illusion. It is a `small probability event’ which would happen to only to a relatively few lucky ones, but the ideology of the market economy survives by nurturing this illusion for the majority.