Monday, March 06, 2006
On Dissent, Dissenters and Petrification of Politics
ANANYA VAJPEYI New Delhi - -
"Why are we – people who feel that there ought to be some space for disagreement in a democratic society, and more so in a dialogue between the world's two largest democracies -- so completely, unequivocally, undeniably, helpless? Why was there an utter absence of radical energy in the anti-Bush protests in Delhi?
March 02, 2006 .
"Today the Indian government signed an agreement with US President George W. Bush that would, if passed by the American Congress, allow unprecedented Indo-US cooperation on nuclear energy. The Indian stock market went through the roof. Indian television channels and newspapers could barely contain their euphoria.
Nay-sayers, of which there are always some to be found, even in these times of near-total consensus between all shades of political opinion on practically all matters of any importance to the world, took out a protest demonstration in the heart of official Delhi, on Parliament Street."
[Whole article on E-Social Sciences, free subscribtion]
¶ Monday, March 06, 2006
"Why are we – people who feel that there ought to be some space for disagreement in a democratic society, and more so in a dialogue between the world's two largest democracies -- so completely, unequivocally, undeniably, helpless? Why was there an utter absence of radical energy in the anti-Bush protests in Delhi?
"Today the Indian government signed an agreement with US President George W. Bush that would, if passed by the American Congress, allow unprecedented Indo-US cooperation on nuclear energy. The Indian stock market went through the roof. Indian television channels and newspapers could barely contain their euphoria.
Nay-sayers, of which there are always some to be found, even in these times of near-total consensus between all shades of political opinion on practically all matters of any importance to the world, took out a protest demonstration in the heart of official Delhi, on Parliament Street."
[Whole article on E-Social Sciences, free subscribtion]
¶ Monday, March 06, 2006
