Some time back I was upbraided for rewording "chaotic democracy" as "functioning anarchy". Here is confirmation of my choice of terminology by ET which had recently echoed (by coincidence or intent) my phrase "eyeopener" in a positive vein in connection with Delhi airport's new runway. Anarchic republic of India http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Editorials/Anarchic_republic_of_India/ar ticleshow/3445847.cms <If one remembers correctly, a while ago some enterprising soul, who takes matters nomenclatural rather seriously, had filed a case as to why the Constitution still claimed we were a 'sovereign socialist secular republic'. That gentleman, it seems was most offended by the socialist part. Quite right. When we've given up all pretence, why bother with the nameplate at all? And then, one might, with equal lucidity, enquire into the accuracy of the other bits as well.
Indeed, perhaps we should just call ourselves an anarchist republic, given the comfort we extract from **chaos**. For, what else can explain our **normality** even as we witness a massive flood, yet another communal riot, and a few odd states still wanting to secede. But then, we revel in cutting off and **blaming** it on those perfidious 'locals'. Thus, no one bats an eyelid as, virtually overnight, we find a huge swathe of a state under water, with around a million souls displaced. It's the fault of those 'local ' officials, who must have pocketed the funds meant for repair and upkeep of embankments, and were just waiting for the flood so they can claim their work was washed away. And we still find it normal that men sent in on boats on rescue operations should be found raping women, even as local bahubalis simply hoard the relief supplies leaving the old and weak to die. It's the fault of the 'local' socio-political space. They are like that only. It says nothing about the whole nation at all. Ditto for those minorities being burnt and hounded in another state. After all, secularism, willy-nilly, means majoritarianism. Forgetting that would only be inviting trouble. No one likes small groups asserting themselves anyway. As for those masses screaming for independence in another state, there's just got to be something wrong with them too. Look at all we've done for them over the years. Ingratitude is a sin that finds no redemption except through cur fews, lathis and bullets. As for the rest of us, we are innocent, and decent. **Anarchy, needless to say, is utterly normal**.> A quick reading suggest that this article fits Goa perfectly.
