A recent video discussion in a show featuring Pakistanis Dr. Moeed Pirzada and Dr. Hussain Nadim, anchored by Mehlaqa Samdani, shows the total superficiality and inanity of the so-called ‘intellectuals’ of the Indian subcontinent.

The discussion was about the ‘democratic deficit’ in Pakistan.

I heard the entire video, which was almost one and a half hours long, and found it totally inane and superficial, consisting of just blah blah blah and a lot of twaddle, claptrap, drivel, empty rhetoric, and hot air. So I will not waste my time discussing what was said but will instead give my own views.

Democracy was defined by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as government by the people, of the people, and for the people.

In the Indian subcontinent, there cannot be a government by or of the people because the vast majority of our people have backward, feudal mindsets, full of casteism, religious bigotry, and superstitions, so they are not fit to rule themselves.

For instance, in India, there is parliamentary democracy, but everyone knows it runs largely on the basis of caste and communal vote banks. When 90% of Indians go to vote, they do not see the merit of the candidate—whether they are a good person or bad, educated or not—but only consider their caste or religion or the caste or religion that the........

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