> No, it doesn't. It does mean that there is a branching away between the rural > and urban India, that Bharat and India are separating faster than we thought, > and that India is by no means homogenous, it contains a set of Bharatiyas > (bhartis, in Pakistani web-site slang) folded in. >
Let me rephrase. :) The widening economic gap between Bharat and India means in those hazaar Bharats, democracy is a myth. As an example of that Bharat: The name of this thread is similar to that of a paper I was going through recently 'Republic of Hunger', which stated that poor rural families are consuming around 100 kgs lesser than they did before. I think the paper was out in 2005, not sure what the condition is now. Interestingly, the One Nation and Majoritarian seems to be the only professed difference between the parties. When it comes to economic policies, they become indistinguishable.
