If social activism is to realistically take on ‘the question of power’ it must be carried out from a knowing ‘holistic’ assault on all social spheres of society. This is the challenging premise that ...

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Sir, Janan Ganesh, in “Direct democracy threatens the way we are governed”, Oct 31) argues that it is direct democracy rather than dictatorship that is the gravest threat to representative democracy. ...

According to the minimalist definition associated with the political economist Joseph Schumpeter, democracy is simply a matter of leadership selection. Democracy ‘does not and cannot mean that the ...