India, July 26 -- Gandhi foresaw the flaws in elections, long before independence. Today's youth must rediscover that vision to revive a nation straying from its founding ideals

The 20th century was, along with great strides in science and technology, World War I and World War II, also the witness of liberation movements, social reforms, democracies taking root, and -most importantly -the emergence of high aspirations, hopes of progress and development in practically every newly liberated country.

There were great expectations for the creation of a world of peace, harmony, social synchronisation, and religious amity. Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others on the political side, along with scientists like Einstein, Niels...