nov 6th, 2007
thought of something funny: in bangalore, they have the world's most bizarre overpass/flyover. you drive up, STOP, WAIT FOR CROSS-TRAFFIC, and then proceed! this is contrary to the very idea of overpasses! but this is namma bengalooru.
in islamabad, musharraf similarly created the world's first military coup by a dictator against his own government! it doesn't get any more bizarre than that.
so that's one more thing in common between pakistan and bangalore.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/nov/05rajeev.htm
4 comments:
Exactly. Musharraf is clearly a bastard (pardon my french), but atleast he is a consistent one and is engaged in a relentless pursuit of his nation's interests (as he perceives them). The Indian dhimmocrats in comparison are inarticulate, dull, dishonest scum. Deve Gowda is possibly among the worst scumbags that Indian democracy has ever excreted, surpassed only by the likes of the anatomically deficient Manmohan Singh. The people who vote for such scum and those who indirectly enable them by NOT exercising their franchise - completely deserve their representatives.
And, in my opinion - it is India that is presently in greater need of an "emergency" like arrangement (although not under the current UPA dhimmis) to preserve the Indian Union's territorial intergrity, to safeguard it's civilisation from annihilation and to prevent enslavement of the nation by imperialistic forces yet again. The declaration of
"emergency" in 1975 was made by a strong (albeit ideologically misguided) leader when the situation did not remotely warrant it. The present UPA anarchy clearly justifies tough disciplinary measures to restore order, but alas, the wrong people are in power to implement anything of the sort.
I really don't get Indian Democracy. We boast world's biggest democracy, but what use is it? Even the progressive states like Karnataka electorate doesn't have control on who their CM could be? I am not sure why they endure such BS like Dave Gowada? Why aren't there any campaigns by citizens of the state to show their displeasure?
Somebody who is living in Karnataka provide what is general public is saying about this situation? If the public is not raving mad, I am really disappointed.
To put Karnataka situation along side with the situation in Pakistan - I am not sure which is worse? Is hollow democracy any better than dictatorship?
several problems with Indian Democracy, some of them in no particular order
Horrible media
socialist economic system and the assumptions of mai-baap sarkar encoded into peoples minds over several decades of license-permit raj, hence no initiative at any level
too many illiterate people
far too large of a rural population. Rural and urban populations think and vote differently(IMHO - maybe it is not true) Gujarat is 40% urban which is I think the most urbanized state in the country. It is far too easy to fool people in rural areas with promises and giveaways. also rural areas have too small a middle class if any.
social structure - a sufficiently large middle class is an absolute precondition for an "good" democracy - hopefully rising prosperity will cure that
large sections of the three most intellectual states have gone over to the dark side
even with everything in place if you get a bad leader you are screwed (any examples required?;)
"To put Karnataka situation along side with the situation in Pakistan - I am not sure which is worse? Is hollow democracy any better than dictatorship?"
was this a rhetorical question? if not then
The advantage that Karnataka has over Pakistan is that there are alternative centers of power which allow aggressive people with the will to power to explore different career options, rather than everyone viciously competing with each other to be part of the ONE SINGLE establishment
I seem to remember that in Chaos Theory a complex system is one which has several different specialized organs all working together. Thus a human would be more complex than a single celled Amoeba (I said complex not superior). A complex system would also be less brittle and more flexible.
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