Dear Gabriel, Have you not seen on Indian news channels, coverage of common people denouncing and burning effigies of government officials every other day.
Hyde Park seemed pretty tame to me compared to the anti-Government protests that regularly occur in India. Witness the current ones in Delhi for a better picture. I also believe that anti-Country(as opposed to anti Government) propaganda is taken very seriously in all democracies. If you made anti-UK speeches in Hyde park, you would not get away with it lightly(neither from the public nor the government). I wonder if you can freely and openly do the same in your country of residence. I believe the consitution of the vibrant democracy you choose to live in cosidered its indigenous people as part of the "fauna" till the 1970's and more recently race riots broke out over the use of a beach! Yet you seem to condescendingly question the way Indians are dealing with our diversity, us being probably the most diverse country in the world. Your ideas of India and Indian democracy seem to be based less on fact and more on some sort of paranoia. Regards Sunith Velho --- Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: > > Wouldn't you be jailed and or severely beaten up in > India if you carried out anti-India propaganda > today? India is still "sensitive" even though it may > proclaim to be "democratic". > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
