Indian federalism’s real challenge is to design institutions in a way that would encourage participatory democracy in terms of self-rule plus shared rule
The original intent of constitutional federalism was not to have a strong centralised federalism but to have, through “statutory decentralisation”, accommodation of diverse needs and aspirations and working on the principles of subsidiarity and asymmetrical federalism
At the Ramjas College early this year, we saw the murky side of DUSU politics, where the ABVP was up in arms against students and teachers who had organized the conference on protest movements.
