Mainstream Weekly https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net Mainstream Weekly https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 Power to the People and its Enemies https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2098.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2098.html 2010-06-01T13:22:02Z text/html en George Mathew <p>The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper saw way back in the 1940s how the open society was being wrecked from within, something the enemies of the Panchayati Raj are doing at present. All efforts to give power to the people through democratic decentralisation and empowerment of the disempowered are being undermined by the vested interests. We have created a structure but it is like an edifice without base. <br class='autobr' /> The Standing Committee of Parliament on Rural Development (2009-10) in (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique105.html" rel="directory">2010</a>