On Thu August 17 2006 6:46 am, gabin kattukaran wrote: > In this aspect, how are we different from the Americans or the British? > Don't their politicians get more security cover than Joe Average?
Yes but Joe Average gets enough security to thwart terror attacks. The disruption in UK airports recently was part of the security measures for Joe Average - and no Joe Average got killed, though he complained. In that sense there is a world of a difference between the UK/US on the one hand and India on the other. > You can argue both ways here - Since anyone can (at least theoretically) > become a minister there is no caste system - only a class system. This > exists everywhere. On the other hand, given how many of our political > parties believe that party positions are inherited, you could start > believing it is a caste system all over again. Absolutely - no question about what you are saying. My only caveat is how all this squares in with the written constitution we have? Let me be Udhay's troll again. India has a written constitution but Indians do not feel a compelling need to stick to that constitution the way the Brits and Americans do. Indian politicians continue to promote and use the caste system, and Indians such as we continue to accept that the lives of different people have different values and some are inevitably dispensable via terrorism. shiv
