1. Diplomacy
2. Compliance with orders
3. Enterprise and initiative
4. High risk taking
Compliance with orders
1. It socializes children early into the norms of middle class institutions
2. It helps them learn the language of universities and corporations
3. It creates a sense of enlightenment in middle-class children
4. It develops bright kids into Straddlers
It develops bright kids into Straddlers
1. Should the state governments wrest more space from the Union, before considering the panchayati system
2. Should rights similar to those that the States managed to get be extended to panchayats as well
3. Should the single party system which has withered away be brought back at the level of the States
4. Should the States get "their pound of flesh" before allowing the Union government to pass any more laws
Should rights similar to those that the States managed to get be extended to panchayats as well
1. The ways in which the democratic multiparty system works in an assertively pluralistic society like India's are flawed
2. The mechanisms that our federal system uses at the Union government level to deal with States are imperfect
3. The instruments that have ensured federalism at one level, have been used to achieve the opposite at another
4. The Indian Constitution and the spirit of the Indian polity are fatally flawed
The instruments that have ensured federalism at one level, have been used to achieve the opposite at another
1. The Supreme Court has not begun to extend the limits of its power
2. The multi-party system has replaced the single party system
3. The Union, state and panchayati raj levels have become real
4. There is real distribution of power between the Union and State level parties
There is real distribution of power between the Union and State level parties
1. Our grassroots development at the panchayat level is now driven by the "foreign aid" syndrome
2. Panchayati raj is firmly entrenched at the lower level of our federal system of governance
3. A truly federal polity has not developed since PRIs have not been allowed the necessary political space
4. The Union government and State-level parties are engaged in a struggle for the protection of their respective rights
A truly federal polity has not developed since PRIs have not been allowed the necessary political space
1. The weakening of the local institutions' ability to plan according to their needs
2. The increasing demands made on elected local leaders to match central grants with local contributions
3. The empowering of the panchayat system as implementers of schemes from State capitals
4. The process by which the prescribed Central schemes are reformulated by local elected leaders
The weakening of the local institutions' ability to plan according to their needs
1. A lack of excess
2. Simplicity of form
3. Expression of intellect
4. Mystic spirituality
Mystic spirituality
1. Hindoo temple power of nature
2. Parthenon – simplicity
3. Egyptian temple – mysticism
4. Greek temple – symbolism
Parthenon – simplicity
1. Man is the centre of creation
2. Egyptian temples save man from un human forces
3. Temples celebrate man's victory over nature
4. Man is inconsequential before the tremendous force of nature
Man is inconsequential before the tremendous force of nature