A few Bhaisahibs on their morning constitutional, discussing the Constitution.
1st Bhaisahib: That was an attention-grabbing article in TOI about why India grew to become not only a democracy but additionally a republic.
2nd Bhaisahib: Yup. It mentioned {that a} nation generally is a democracy and never be a republic, like UK, and that it may be a republic and never a democracy, like these banana republics.
1st Bhaisahib: But we in India have gotten a democracy anda republic. It’s like a kind of combo presents the place you purchase a pizza and get a cola free. But there are some minor issues.
2nd Bhaisahib: What are these minor issues?
1st Bhaisahib: These minor issues are known as minorities and it’s due to them that we grew to become a democracy anda republic.
2nd Bhaisahib: Yeah? How’s that?
1st Bhaisahib: In a democracy – which comes from Greek phrase ‘demos’, which means janta – it’s we, the individuals, who name all of the photographs.
2nd Bhaisahib: So what’s fallacious with we, the individuals, calling all of the photographs?
1st Bhaisahib: Nothing, besides that our Constitution’s framers felt that whereas we, the individuals, calling all of the photographs can be a majority, there would even be a them, the individuals, who can be minorities and should be shielded from us majority individuals calling all of the photographs. That’s why we wanted to be a republic, in order that there’d be constitutional guidelines to guard these minorities from our majoritarian shot-calling.
2nd Bhaisahib: I don’t perceive. Why don’t these minority individuals simply be a part of us in shot-calling? And then we’ll all be a majority, and we received’t want a republic to guard anybody any extra.
1st Bhaisahib: That’s the minor drawback with these minorities. They need to stay minorities, for some unusual cause.
2nd Bhaisahib: Why? Just to be spoilsports?
1st Bhaisahib: Sort of. That’s the factor with minorities. And that’s why we want a republic.
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