Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Democracy - A perspective !

Democracy is an evolving mechanism, it requires lot of patience and persistence and sometimes it tests the resilience of its citizenry. For instance the United States as we see today has gone through so many pains over its 200 years of democracy. The civil war that threatened the very existence of this great nation took over half million lives but it also strengthened the  union and laid the foundation for a great republic. The movements sweeping middle east  are just the start and it's a long way to go and here is a  article with some Indian perspective.

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/02/01/india-journal-what-the-middle-east-can-learn-from-india/

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