Nitin Pai on Educating Citizens
Ideas of India
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Public Policy
I like to look at it primarily as a book of citizen craft. The word itself is unusual because we have a lot of books of state craft. When I was 42 years of age, I realized that the Panchatantra is also a book about state craft. So this book addresses that big gap. It fills that gap and says there is something called the dharma of citizenship, which is the duties of a citizen. Liberal democracy is a lot of hard work and the right kind of hard work is what you don't want to do too often in India.
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