South Asian Family business of Politics, Media and everything

There is one common thing all over South Asia : Political families- in every single country- there is no one country in the region without prominent political families.
Family driven business houses-
leadership is by inheritance. - take all big busness in most of these countries. Family driven media houses- take the case of most of established media houses: The Hindu, Times, IE, Hindustan Times, Manorama, Aanada Basar Patrika, Sakal - the list can go on.; even family driven Bollywood and Molly wood. All big actors launch their sons/daughters in Cinema Even family driven NGOs( of course those with big assets). So what is the story? Dynasty is the rule rather than exception for those who hold power and control resources.
It is a social character of a society that internalized semi-feudal and caste-perpetuating values. There is hardly any mainstream party in India where many are in power position due to the lineage. BJP too is not an exception. Left is to a large extent free of it, though not fully.

So how can Rahul Gandhi be an exception in the world of around thirty big , small and medium size political families that promote lineage in politics.
Part of the problem is that democracy is superimposed on semi-feudal conservative and caste-driven society. So while there is an electoral democracy though the society itself is undemocratic and hierarchical/ patriarchal to the core. There is a liberal constitution in an illiberal society. It is such society where leadership and resources are by inheritance and not through open-market competition.

In fact, Merit is only an illusion as it is often the prerogative of the already privileged. This is explained in detail in my paper on Promises and performance of Democracy in South Asia.