We Need Mayors, Not Panchayats

London has a new Mayor – a conservative of Turkish descent, whose children are a quarter Indian!

Seems to be quite a guy. Read more about him here.

Mayors are an ancient institution of civic government in Europe.

The institution of Lord Mayor of the City of London is over 800 years old, older than the Magna Carta.

There is an excellent history of this institution I am happy to recommend.

It will reveal the secret of civic independence – for it is the Mayor who upholds the Civic Sword.

This is how Capitalism happened – with merchants running their own towns.

Thus, panchayati raj is a nonsense village vision.

India is urbanizing aggressively – and every city and town needs a Mayor.

We must abandon the Gandhian vision of ‘self-sufficient village economies’.

Instead, let India be a nation of hundreds and thousands of free trading and self-governing cities and towns – with good Mayors in each.

In other words, all the ‘theories’ upon which our government is based are wrong.

And they want to teach!

Gimme Hope, Joanna!