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Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics

Democracy Paradox

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Is There a Diversity of Ideas in the Government?

There weren't enough ideas in andeara gandi's government. There was a single ideological direction that they were moving, he says. And there weren't sufficient number of technocrats, bureaucrats who could bring alternative ideas to the table. The interventions that could have taken place if missus gundy had the right bench of expertes would have been different, writes Nwachukwu.

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