Chaos, crisis, confusion: Curious case of sabotage and subversion

Recent aviation chaos highlights governance challenges, corporate accountability, and India’s democratic resilience.

- SANTISHREE DHULIPUDI PANDIT

One of the defining strengths of India’s democratic system is its commitment to openness, accountability,and institutional transparency. Under the Modigovernment, this commitmenthasbeen repeatedly reinforced through regulatory reform, procedural streamlining, anda strong emphasis on citizen welfare. India today benefits from agovernance model that does not shy away from scrutiny, whether of the state itself or of powerful private actors operating in criti-calsectors. Yet, precisely because India is open and rule-based, it also faces new forms of disruption.

These disruptions do not always emerge through overt political confrontation. Increasingly, they surface throughadmin-istrative stress points, corporate noncompliance, information overload, and crises that appear coincidental, but produce disproportionately destabilising effects. Insuch moments, the real test of governance lies not in denial, but inresponse. The timing has been extremely suspicious to embar-rassa extremely popular leader of the world’s largest and oldest democracy.