Bulletproof Democracy

Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009 by Abhilash in
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Be in no doubt. We're hearing gunshots everyday. Our netas are trying to kill an ideology that our nation has so proudly stood by for more than six decades. Yes, you got this one right, it's democracy.

Roads filled with numerous potholes which mirror the loopholes in our system, flyovers with an overwhelming tendency to collapse, government hospitals in which the mortuaries keep setting new records in terms of intake, electric poles that threaten to electrocute you whenever there's a drizzle....these are just a 'phew!' of the long list of problems. But we don't seem to care much. Some of us don't even bother to vote. We bribe government officials for getting our personal deeds done. For us,'progress' and 'development' are just terms that figure in those Annual Economic Reports(which nobody reads anyway). 
But aren't progress and development meant to be in our daily lives too? As long as we don't question the injustice, corruption and stagnation...as long as we're complacent with the hypocritical system,no change happens. Period. Being calm doesn't help. We should demand for our rights. We've got to wake up!! Let's make our democracy bulletproof, so that no ugly politics can kill it.
Did somebody say a revolution?