Harsh jha

New delhi: Today, the term democracy is very precious for any country because it gives basic and fundamental rights to people in that particular country. And to examine wether the country stand in democracy or not ,there are only few Institute which are operated by western countries (USA, UK) 


But now india is also mulling to create it's own democracy and freedom index report by our local think tank. 

Recently there was a report from V-Dem  Institute which is in Sweden (Europe)  it said that India does not have democracy now it has changed into electoral autocracy. 


And also there is another freedom house index which is American based NGO said that now india is no longer a free democracy Now it has changed into partly free democracy. 

In US people doesn't focus on these reports, they don't have obsession that what a Sweden think tank thought about them. 

Where as India takes western opinion on pedestal,we recognise a western countries a lot. as what they think about us, in any aspects I.e political, governance, sports or anything. We are obsessed with Western view point. Even we are very obsessed that what a foreigner thinks about a indian movie. you may see the example on YouTube where there are so much movie reviews. 



Really we have to overcome this hangover of colonialism. 

The ministry of external affairs is mulling on " World democracy report "as well as a global press freedom index to be brought out by an independent Indian think tank -indian news outlets said

We may encourage one of the indian independent think tank to bring out it's own annual world democracy report based on comprehensive parameters as well as an annual global freedom of press Index an internal note prepared by the ministry of external affairs earlier this year. 

In terms of religious freedom practices no country is better than Indian. Even France and many other countries . 

All the religious factor doesn't counted in those above reports created by western countries. But if india may create it's own Index than we may consider all of these factor in it. And we can create freedom in religious factor index also which will bring out india in good ranking.