Indian Democracy in the eye of Foreigner

By minhajalam

“India is only country in the world which can be said to have one of the richest traditions in the world.”

 

Sorry, i’ve heard this sort of message a thousand times…there is a trmendous lack of originality!!

 

41% of world’s pooor people…guess that you don’t care too much about traditions when you have no food or place where to live with dignity. Do you think that a tradition is good only just because of the fact that it is a tradition??? In Spain it is traditional for people to gather to see how a bull is killed?? In Canada thousands of seals are killed every year because one of its traditions is to do so…

 

“Indian is the biggest democracy in the world”…sorry but i don’t see any credit to that,…or do you think you are a better country for having a democracy of 1000 million people instead of 5 miilion people. Is indian democracy better that norwegian or dutch? What’s more, do you really think you’re living in a real democracy?? A country in which politicians change the party they belong to every week?? A country where the votes of the poor people are bought?

 

“INDIA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SIMPLY COZ ITS A LAND WHERE THERE IS NO CULUTURE DIVIDES HINDUS AND MUSLIMS LIVE IN PEACE”…guess that the thousands of killings during the partition just because of religious differences is a tale by some boring authors..and guess the gujarat conflicts did not take place…it was another creation of the press…and i could give many other examples…but you all know them…

 

…corruption of officials at all levels, unefficient judicial system, growth that leads to increasing inequality, humiliating attitute towards poor people by the rest of indians (i’ve lived in several parts of India and this is one of the things that impressed me most), child labour, brain drain, discrimination against women…

 

India has many fantastic things (you’ve mentioned many of them and i agree with you), but the problems are not going to dissapear only if you hide them or if you only speak the positive things.

 

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” (Abraham Lincoln)

 

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