Are we living in a democracy ?
This is the meaning of democracy as per dictionary.com, "The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community" After 58 years of independence, modern India still cannot be considered as a true democracy. Two stories that have been doing the rounds in newspapers and media have added fuel to this fire, the anti-quota protests and the Aamir Khan controversy. There are bound to be people on both sides, but this is what I have to say on the quota issue; The reservation for backward castes was brought into the nation's constitution as an exceptional clause only and was to be followed only for 15 years. Those years have long since gone by and politicians have made merry, indulging themselves in vote-bank politics. I am not against reservation. What I am against is the fact that this government is hell bent on dividing the country on caste lines, thus tearing the social fabric apart and giving rise to tension in communities co-habited by people of a...