09-23-2006, 10:40 PM
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Recently came across this:
The only people with any voice in India are the poor; the rest are forced either to resort to corruption as the rich do, or to indifference, as the middle classes do. The conclusion is thus that Indian democracy survives mainly because the middle classes have in essence been relegated to second-class citizenship.
Here is my response thereof:
The poor in India have nothing more to lose and they are vocal. At the same time, the middle class is idol for the poor 'coz that's the nearest they can go2.
I could not have agreed with you more that middle class is indifferent but their's is steadied silence as they are hardly left with any time after day's struggle and at the same time, they are almost noveo rich if not the rich and those who are not; are constantly struggling to be rich. So to say, rich are idols for middle class.
Now calling all the rich as corrupt is not okay, perhaps, you meant those who want to be overnight rich.
Anymore for manymore!
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Recently came across this:The only people with any voice in India are the poor; the rest are forced either to resort to corruption as the rich do, or to indifference, as the middle classes do. The conclusion is thus that Indian democracy survives mainly because the middle classes have in essence been relegated to second-class citizenship.
Here is my response thereof:
The poor in India have nothing more to lose and they are vocal. At the same time, the middle class is idol for the poor 'coz that's the nearest they can go2.
I could not have agreed with you more that middle class is indifferent but their's is steadied silence as they are hardly left with any time after day's struggle and at the same time, they are almost noveo rich if not the rich and those who are not; are constantly struggling to be rich. So to say, rich are idols for middle class.
Now calling all the rich as corrupt is not okay, perhaps, you meant those who want to be overnight rich.
Anymore for manymore!