[Reader-list] On Nandan Nilekani and democracy.

[Patrice Riemens]

Dear Zainab, Taha and others,

Nandan Nilekani's views on democracy, once ferreted out will probably come
as no surprise, since they're likely to reflect the 'regent class'
trademark despise of the same. As a fore-taste I can always offer Alain
Minc (a kind of French NN) (in)famous quote about this subject: "Democracy
is not the Natural state of society. But the market is."

Cheers from Groningen, patrizio and Diiiinooos!

"Il n'y a de souverain que le peuple"





> Dear Taha,
> I came to know about Nilekani's remarks from a friend. This friend
> mentioned
> to me that Nilekani made this remark on a television talk show on STAR.
> The
> talk show would have been held in 2006 sometime because this was around
> the
> time when I wrote this post.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zainab
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Taha Mehmood
> <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear Zainab, (Dear All)
>>
>> This pertains to a post which you made on the reader-list sometime
>> ago. In this particular post, the following bit was mentioned-
>>
>> 'Thom Friedman, the interviewer, asked Nilekani what is the difference
>> between India and China. Nilekani replied saying that China does not
>> have the problem of democracy which India has.'
>> https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/test1/2006-December/008448.html
>>
>> If true, then I'd like to consider this as an extremely significant
>> statement, coming from a person, who now holds a cabinet level berth
>> and is responsible to give us all tokens of national membership. It
>> would be interesting to know more about his views on democracy, open
>> society and other impediments.
>>
>> However one is not sure about these things till one can attribute it
>> to a source. My request to you therefore is, could you please provide
>> us with a link or a source which links what is being claimed to Nandan
>> Nilekani so that  we can then study the interview in greater detail.
>>
>> Warm regards
>>
>> Taha
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Zainab Bawa
> Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher
>
> Gaining Ground ...
> http://zainab.freecrow.org
>
> http://cis-india.org/research/cis-raw/histories-of-the-internet/transparency-and-politics
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