DEMOCRACY sometimes puts enlightenment at risk. Sure, one will not question the idea that for all its flaws, democracy remains the best form of government that a nation might choose for itself. But that thought suffers a jolt when you see a democratic movement, such as the one that deposed the despised Shah in Iran in 1979 swiftly commandeered by clerics whose take on democracy is vastly removed from ours. But why go so far? The recent city corporation elections in Bangladesh, while they are putatively a triumph for political pluralism and of which some of us may feel quite proud, have thrown up a queer situation.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:45:54 +0000
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