“Is there no virtue among us, if there be not, we are in a wretched situation?” – James Madison

The bond between the world’s most powerful democracy and the world’s most populous democracy is so deep and enduring that while Columbus obviously made a mistake in thinking that he had discovered India when he landed on the shores of America, it was a mistake of symbolic significance. The United States and India are indentured to the same ideals and aspirations. The founding fathers of Indian constitution drew largely upon USA’s fundamental law and liberty – the external frame lights Indian constitution as luminously as it does in USA.

Is United States heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War?(1/6 capitol insurrection and most recent Roe v. Wade overturn). The warning signs maybe obscured by the distraction of politics, pandemic, the economy and global crises. Liberal democracy requires acceptance of adverse electoral results; a willingness to countenance the temporary rule of those with whom we disagree. As historian Richard Hofstadter observed, it requires that people endure error in the interest of social peace. The participants of January 6 proved and preferred to define constitutional and democratic norms. I never ever thought that Americans can support a violent assault on the Capitol.

The people of India and the United States have always had sentiments of friendship and goodwill towards each other, the governments of the two countries a few years ago found it difficult to be on the same wavelength.

These recent events bear witness to the shaping and molding of a new world order marked by raising awareness of the need of justice and moral values. This doom and gloom shall pass when the leaders have the wisdom to perceive the truth and the courage to say it to the people.

God bless America!