Dehradun, Oct. 29 -- Seeing the meltdown in so many countries across the world, leading to violence and deaths, one can only attribute it to failure of governance and related institutions. India's relative stability, in contrast, despite its great diversity and historic baggage of successive foreign invasions and colonialism, needs necessarily to be praised and upheld as a model for the world. The credit obviously goes to the continuum provided by its ancient civilisation, which has made it possible for its people to adopt and internalise the conventions of its democratic constitution. This does not mean, of course, that it is a perfect system not requiring improvement. The 104 amendments to the constitution since its adoption - some good, ...