Introduction: Uniting the Nation: Re-engineering India's Hardware and Software
Pushparaj Deshpande
The Cabinet: A Check on Authoritarianism Mallikarjun Kharge
Enhancing Peoples' Rights and Freedoms: The NAC Revisited Sonia Gandhi
Reimagining Parliament: Hopes and Perils Hamid Ansari
The Centrality of Coalitions to Statecraft Sitaram Yechury
Reimagining, Reforming and Transforming India's Judiciary Madan Lokur
The Partisan Role of Governors in New India Margaret Alva
Election Commission: The Bedrock of a Democracy Ashok Lavasa
India's Fading Federal Institutions
Dr T.M. Thomas Isaac
Re-Empowering the People: Strengthening India's Information Commissions Wajahat Habibullah
Patronage and Professionalism in the Indian Bureaucracy
Dr Naresh Chandra Saxena
An Agenda for Policy Reform for Civil Society in India Prof. Ingrid Srinath
Epilogue: Repurposing the State Gurdeep Singh Sappal

India is rapidly becoming the world’s largest flailing democracy. India’s institutional framework has been systematically undermined, from within and without. In the tenth volume of the Rethinking India series, some of India’s most eminent persons write of how we can think of re-engineering India’s hardware (redressing structural flaws in India’s existing institutions, creating new institutions equipped to address fresh challenges and re-engaging all of India’s systems), as well as ensuring progressive forces radically re-invent their political strategies and operational methodologies to socialize Indians to constitutional values.

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