True, voting rights don't prevent events like Operation Bluestar or the Babri Masjid for that matter. But what they do allow is a medium to air grievances. If I as a Sikh am dissatisfied with the way that operation was handled I will vote against that particular party in the next elections. If you'd have researched in depth you'd have realized that the very same political party the Congress that ordered the operation was about 6 years later voted back into power into the state for bringing peace in the state. Thus giving me a way to express my disappointment without the fear of getting shot. That sadly wasn't the case in TS in 89.
I bet you know not much about China (neither do I, but I understand Chinese language, and the culture I guess). What knowledge you have possessed are mostly from Western point of view, a twisted and deamonized view.
I was in a similar situation as you are now decades ago. As I grow more matured, I know it is so hard to cast a more correct view: for the Chinese of the West, and for Westerners of China. Simple, both of them are grown up in different social soils and are nurturing different values, but both are valid in many occasions, .
If you have ever heard of “mothers of Tiananmen incidence”, an organization of the mothers of the perished students; if you ever know a part in Beijing called 上訪村 (or “village of pertitioner to Beijing”
where people all over China present their grievnce, true, false, even fake, to the central governemnt directly; if you ever know how many corruptive officials in China have been prosecuted purely due to that the victimes or witernesses posted information/criminal evidence on the internet...
In fact, in chinese website, I called for the government to pay greater attention to the pertitioners in the village. Event if 99% of the alleged grievance is false, fake, event lied, still there are 1% chance to catch bad officials. Of course, huge recourses are needed for that.
There are too many youtubes that evidences how ordinary people curse CPC in public. Of course,
if you don’t know Chinese, too bad. The ordinary people use Chinese to curse CPC for the CPC member to understand, not English.
On the other side, have we heard the grievance of the 2,000,000/year perished Children, and many other injustice, in India? Democracy is not a sufficient condition for people to voice, and more importantly, to solve their pains and problems
You are using a pretty broad brush there. I don't think that's the case.
And my last post also points out why democracy is so important for India. We have so much diversity and heterogeneity that only democracy can allow their voices to be heard and their aspirations to be realized (to an extent that is).
Mate, Don’t take me wrong. I’m OK for your democracy, and there are some merits in it. In fact, I’m OK with whatever system you’d like to take.
But if you, or somebody else, from India, say why don’t you freaking Chinese take Western democracy, I’d say “buy a mirror and look into your own self in the mirror”.
Maybe it is wise not to compare apple with orange, as the two countries are so different, as you said. Just let the world watch,
who can deliver more and better.
