The Anguish of India Author:Ronald Segal "Can India[1965 observation]...burdened by poverty, famine, & a caste system--survive as the only democratic stronghold in Asia?" The view from 2008 is YES: India's huge, truly federal system["states" semi-independent]works, like Switzerland or Canada, but on a truly grand scale. The EU is something like India. Hopefully China, Russia, the US, e... more »tc will follow.« less