India - A Flawed Democracy ?

First World think tanks often come up with catchy labels for descriptions of Third World countries and their problems in the modern industrialized global economy.
It is of course, a right given exclusively to them, ever since the Christian missionaries, set about civilizing the natives, whether in the Americas, Asia, the outbacks of Australia and New Zealand, or in Africa.
The latest addition, is the term called flawed democracy, used by many well meaning doctrinaires of what democracy is all about, to come to terms with the public reaction in India, to India and US civil nuclear agreement. See this web link to an article examining this issue from an erudite point of view.
I recently came across this article questioning, what exactly are the boils, farts and warts, on this shining new concept of flawed democracy, used by Economic Inteligence Unit to describe Indian democracy, and a term that has caught on in the New Delhi diplomatic circles.
Now it seems the Indian Prime Minister also has come out in defense of the vibrancy of Indian democracy. Indians of course like to use more laudatory adjectives for their democracy - like, vibrant, multicultural, ancient, successful, diverse, self correcting, multi party, unique etc.
What really caught my eye was a description of Indian democracy as a " noisy democracy ".
This article takes the concept of democracy to new lengths, and sets out more conventional adjectives for democracy as having many varieties.
Very interesting debate.
But I do tend to remember the witty Mohandas Karamchand and his comments on when the West, wakes up to take note of the East, and when it prefers to take a more passive approach of co existence with banana republics, clan based and military dictatorships.
Surely oil reserves, free trade and arms deals have a decisive and over archingly important role to play, clubbed together as these are, under the inocuous sounding term - "strategic national interests". This phrase is a favorite with career politicians. You will need an automatic calculator, if you ever want to come to a figure describing how many times this term is used in media and diplomatic circles.
This term when used in conjunction with global interventions, makes interesting reading, to say the least.