The good old duck test tells us that if it looks like a democracy, swims like a democracy, and quacks like a democracy, then it probably is a democracy.
But something about ours is off, unheimlich—the German expression for weird or uncanny. It's like watching your mother walk around the house doing her usual thing, but feeling all the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up long before you realise that that’s just her shell and she has, in fact, been taken over by bodysnatchers. (Don't pretend this has never happened.) Our democracy and institutions have taken on ...
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First Published: Fri, May 04 2018. 17:13 IST
