On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 06:06 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > On Sunday 23 Sep 2007 12:16 am, Ingrid wrote: > > "There are simply too many suffering," one socialite explained. "So > we > > focus on things we can actually have an impact on, like > > art and gardening > > If this class of Indian controlled the government, armed forces and > foreign > policy, and ensured that control stayed within, India would be > Pakistan.
the hopeful thing about india is that while this class of indians certainly has a lot of power, they don't have it all, and most importantly they don't vote, and probably don't even know the difference between the names of the state and national parliaments as suketu mehta illustrates in _maximum city_. having a higher voter turnout among the poor compared to the rich makes india pretty unique (excluding of course small rich democracies where most people vote, and may even be forced to do so by law, as in ... belgium!) -rishab
