Salvatore Babones said at the Rising Bharat Summit that India has cracked the code on how to run a liberal democracy

Salvatore Babones, an American sociologist and associate professor at the University of Sydney, said on Tuesday at CNN-News18’s Rising Bharat Summit that India is the only post-colonial, extremely traditional nation in the world that has figured out how to operate a liberal democracy.

India is a country with a liberal democracy that is strong. Critics of India often claim that the country is not a liberal democracy. India’s democratic institutions are based on those found in Western Europe, Australasia, and North America. Any of the parts of the globe would not be unsuitable for the institutions of India. According to Babones, India is essentially the only post-colonial, deeply traditional nation in the world that has figured out how to manage a liberal democracy.

Babones described the newly enacted Citizenship Amendment Bill as a “good policy.” And the only reason it’s feasible in India is because the country has an inclusive society. a democracy that is inclusive.

“The Citizenship Amendment Act was created because individuals from all over the region—not just the three nations covered by the Act—want to seek asylum in India due to the country’s longstanding traditions of liberty, which are lacking in their own countries.”

When questioned about his previous claim that the intellectual elite in India is anti-Indian, Babones clarified that a large portion of the unfavorable coverage of the nation in Western media originates from intellectuals who are Indian or of Indian descent.

My class was anti-Indian, I remarked. not as individuals, but as a class. That’s not really noteworthy, is what I mean. The intellectual elite in Australia is hostile to Australia as a whole. The US and its institutions are often criticized by the country’s intellectual elite. That is not shocking in the slightest. I provided that explanation because I wanted Indians to know that all of the bad press that has been written about Indian democracy does not come from western professionals who are visiting India on their own to assess the nation.

Indian intellectuals who write for western publications, Indian intellectuals who attend western academic conferences, and Indian-origin intellectuals who publish in western academic journals are where it all began, according to the sociologist.