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Rohini Nilekani on Society, State and Markets

Ideas of India

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The State Citizen Relationship in a Functional Democracy

There is no demand on our lawmakers at all from the public right people don't see necessarily the relationship of their good life and a good law so there needs to be a much deepened discourse on why good laws make for good societies. I feel like somehow that colonial mindset of the state citizen relationship has never quite gone away in the sense that we are not citizens we are treated as subjects yeah. We have something to figure out you know how to navigate this how do we go from being subjects to becoming citizens maybe that's a longer term project that's kind of new okay.

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