only a blind fool gloats with a us vs them comparison. lets not even talk about all the violent reactions in kashmir, the north east, andhra -- every tribal conflict going on since independence.
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Xxxrum <xxx...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://in.news.yahoo.com/behold-indias-unfolding-democratic-revolution-074216078.html > Take a few recent developments in the so-called developed democracies of the > West. In the United Kingdom marauding mobs robbed innocent people, burned > down neighbourhood shops and houses and attacked police with guns and petrol > bombs. In otherwise placid Norway, extreme hate-filled anti-Muslim and > anti-immigrant mindset led to the mass carnage of innocent students and > bombing of buildings in Oslo. In the preacher of democracy, the United > States, a prolonged recession, mounting unemployment and venal partisan > politics have led to hardening of anti-immigrant prejudices, instead of a > pan-American protest movement. A similar narrow-minded response is on display > across crisis-ridden Europe. > > Now contrast that with India's sweeping mass movement. It is peaceful, > non-violent and all-inclusive, propagating a "middle path" shunning the > extremism of Maoists on the one hand and rightwing bigotry on the other. We > must remember that ordinary Indians have been brutalised for far too long by > tyrannical state functionaries ranging from a ruthless policeman to a > shameless minister looting public money to a pitiless judge allowing the > innocent to rot in prison.
