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NationalInterestPod: Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India
Episode 8782
Published 4 months ago
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Regime change can always be a democratic aspiration. But it will take more to achieve it than a few days of protests, riots and arson. What the collapse in Kathmandu with just one push underlines to us is that it was a non-functional state. It had an elected government, but its leaders did not have the first prerequisite for governance: democratic patience. Could this happen in India? A regime change through any “tool kit”? A quick way to explain why it can’t happen is to remind ourselves that constitutional democracies do not have a ‘regime.’
Read this weeks National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/gen-z-nepal-bangladesh-sri-lanka-pakistan-india/2742136/