On calm Sunday evenings “the good old days” don’t knock softly, they barge in. A song from the early 2000s plays on the radio, a reel scrolls across your Instagram, or an old class photograph resurfaces in a dusty album. Suddenly, you are no longer here. You are thirteen again, sitting on the last bench…
History often remembers the death of democracies as grand events—coups, revolutions, or the swift rise of authoritarian rulers. But in India, democracy is not dying with a bang. It is dying quietly, smothered by the silence of its own people. This is not just about political corruption or institutional bias. It is about a dangerous…
