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: for example, “authorities” are seen to protect the guilty, the betrayal endured by citizens is so acute that the legitimacy of the State suffers serious erosion. Once the fragile line of patience snaps, the country may be beyond the point of possible reconciliation between the privileged and the rest. This would be very dangerous.

It is for the government to acquaint those of this problem who claim ignorance of what’s happening in their very country. It is democracy that is supposed to save the situation. All political dispensations and their administrations are accountable to the Indian people. It is incumbent upon them to listen to voices of anguish, however muted or suppressed. Terming a mass revolt as a “law and order problem” will not do.

It is tragic that the Indian State has been reduced to pliable putty, vulnerable and threatened. It needs to be overhauled and revitalised with a fresh set of rules and laws that will defend and dignify the people of India. Reforming the IAS must top this agenda. We acutely need a national leader who is at ease both in India and Bharat, without a searing and ruthless ambition to retain and nurse the kursi.