Back to Vibrant and bi-polar democracy

 Lasting democracies need to be bi-polar,much like a battery where current flows only when both poles are healthy and stay connected through the consumer.Depending upon which  polarity  collapses, it is either a rebellion or an autocracy, leading to dysfunction .As take the JP movement that seeded the Emergency and in turn the rout of Indira Congress after which democracy was re-railed. The post 2009 scenario  however, ushered in an era of inexplicable and simultaneous dereliction both by the ruling dispensation and the Opposition.Each was content and even happy for reasons of its own, too see the other go callously non-functional.That this could go on for as long as two years amidst a depressed global economy , was inexcusable.An inactive battery was bleeding power without fresh charge and every economic index was tumbling down.With both the  poles in inert decay ,mercifully this democracy had found resurgence from within to restore a state of political normalcy.This new found  genre of a democratic backlash however comes unannounced and with many unknowns.How the new and existing polarities would be managed to meet both political and economic ends in these turbulent times,should be matter of both concern and interest.So long as we are able to restore a strong bi-polar polity in this nation,it would remain a question of toil, never of dread.
  (published FE;Jan 9 )
http://epaper.financialexpress.com/210859/Indian-Express/09-January-2014#page/6/2