Manipur, March 20 -- The idea of democracy as the end of history as postulated by Francis Fukuyama, (End of History and the Last Man) despite whatever counter arguments, remains among the most thought-provoking theses that grew out of the political developments in the last part of the 20th Century, the most momentous of which was the end of the Cold War and the crumbling of the Eastern Bloc. The era of Marxism too virtually came to an end with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the opting of the free market economy by it former constituents and Communist allies, although we must add that even if the ideology failed as a political or economic model, it still remains a powerful and incisive tool for social analysis and literary communication...