Subroto Roy thinks that India’s failure to develop parties with conservative, liberal democrat, social democrat and socialist credentials is due to the rot in the Indian politics.

We in India have had more than enough time and democratic experience to have developed by now a set of normal conservative, liberal democrat, social democrat and socialist parties. That we have nothing of the kind speaks to the rot in the political culture we are witnessing in our capital and other major cities. Politically, we may be in for an especially ugly, unpleasant and incoherent few years starting with the presidential election currently underway.

Even though I don’t deny the rot in the Indian Politics, I feel that the author is overlooking the issues of diversity, long history of social discrmination, etc. His explanation is too simplistic.