A chamber of princes?

Let me begin by recounting a conversation I had with a political princeling. I do this in the hope that it will persuade you that democracy is weakened when parliamentary constituencies become fiefdoms. And, that it will remind you that we cannot hope for corruption to end and governance to improve as long as long as we continue to turn a blind eye to the feudalism that has crept so insidiously into the structure of Indian democracy and enfeebled it.

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