{"id":50134,"date":"2018-10-29T01:44:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T20:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=50134"},"modified":"2018-10-29T01:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T20:14:51","slug":"democracy-is-like-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/10\/29\/democracy-is-like-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy is like a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nDictatorship does not always begin after a military coup d&#8217;etat or violent seizure of power by a group. It can also slowly grow within the courtyard of a democratic country. But a leader in a democracy cannot become a dictator so long as there exist democratic institutions. However, it happened many times in history that such leaders started undermining the institutions after coming to power in a democratic manner by the weight of their popularity. After that the constitution is moulded so that they can enjoy absolute power as long as they want to.<br \/>\nDemocracy cannot survive if its institutions are undermined. Democracy is like trees. We will be able to get fragrance of beautiful flowers ~ equality, liberty, fraternity, justice and welfare if we can take care of the trees. But for that we are to provide them with water in the form of debate and dialogue every day.<br \/>\nMoreover, a democracy tree produces flowers only when all of its major branches ~ legislature, executive and judiciary and other branches ~ financial, banking, investigative, educational institutions get the air of transparency and unhindered sunlight of importance.<br \/>\nBut the most essential of all is the constitution soil. If some toxic elements get mixed with the soil then the democracy tree will die a slow death. One day all of its leaves become dry. Then only the skeleton of the tree will remain. Soon the tree will turn into a dry naked question mark in front of our moist eyes.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sujit De, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kolkata<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, Dictatorship does not always begin after a military coup d&#8217;etat or violent seizure of power by a group. It can also slowly grow within the courtyard of a democratic country. But a leader in a democracy cannot become a dictator so long as there exist democratic institutions. However, it happened many times in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}