The world's largest 'Democracy'

India - The World's Largest 'Democracy'

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Questions of women's safety in it

India's the world's largest democracy, or so the government claims. What has gone unnoticed is that it is such a democracy where people are arrested for posting harmless cartoons against the so called representative of the people. The representative who is supposed to serve the people but instead has tons of bodyguards and servants. The representative who is supposed to have a salary of 20000-30000 rupees and yet travels first class (Air and rail) wherever he/she goes. A democracy where the president's son makes unforgivably sexist remarks, yet does not have the decency to apologize and his SISTER apologizes.A democracy where votes are not won by hard work and sincerity, but by lies, bribes and liquor. A country where all genders are supposed to be equal but women are blamed for heinous crimes against themselves. And we are the world's largest democracy. What a joke.

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Recently, the nation surged in anger over the heinous rape and subsequent death of a New Delhi girl, christened Nirbhaya and Damini by various publications (Nirbhaya: Fearless ; Damini: Lightning). What is even more shocking is that even after the police discovered the victim and her friend, who had been badly hurt, on the roadside, they took their own time in taking them to the hospital, because they were arguing under whose jurisdiction the case would come. Such behavior  if not bad enough was further followed by misogynistic and chauvinistic comments of politicians and renowned people. The president's son (aforementioned) commented on the women protesting against the rape, calling them "dented and painted" women, who had come there to show off. Such an irresponsible comment in such a sensitive situation. The RSS Supremo, Mohan Bhagwat is even worse in his ideas. He thinks that marriage is a contract, and the woman is the contractual servant, while the husband is god. He says if women stay at home and perform menial tasks, they will stay safe. These statements betray a sense of chauvinism in the leader. If the husband is god, why do married men rape? If the woman is safe at home, what is domestic violence. Such questions invariably come up, and rightly so. What we need is modern leaders, not leaders with centuries old malpractices drilled into their heads. We need active leaders, not ones who blame each others' political parties. Until and unless this happens, the world's largest democracy will become something we all laugh at - a JOKE.

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