in india, voting among poor and illiiterates is high and voting among middleclass and literates is low.....while in USA its opposite , voting among educated is high and voting among poor and illiterates is low......this is an absolutely shameless thing for all the educated persons in india.....no wonder politicians think that educated lot in india are worthless and hence they just ignore intrests of educated people.....oh! yes , when it comes to polling day the educated lot have many reasons to not to go out and vote, the reasons are obvious, due to polling day they will get holiday why waste time by standing in the queue at polling station?...let us party....., may be their favourite serial on TV is coming and so dont want to go out and vote,....oh shit! rain is coming , dont want to go out and vote....., cricket match india vs bermuda in bermuda is coming on polling day so they wont come out and vote.....dont have patience to stand for a few hours top caste their valuable vote to decide nation's law makers, dont disturb the educated they are too busy with partying, bollywood films, IT and MTV....but poor and illiterate people they dont know all these luxuries and they brave against all odds to caste their votes.....
RE:voting
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari on Aug 08, 2007 02:06 PM Permalink
I do agree with you it is an irony that only potential voters are heard. Unfortunately our group discuss a lot and criticise a lot but doesn't vote. I feel that all appeasement will be done for those who vote enblock. This is high time that we should think about our way of thinking that voting is only way to change the polity. We must vote to get the desired kind of people otherwise all duffers will rule and we loose the right to criticise those.
RE:voting
by Gautam Joshi on Aug 08, 2007 02:02 PM Permalink
I dont agree that voting among poor and illiterates is high and voting among middleclass and literates is low...purely due the fact that the population of poor and illierate class of people in WHOLE of India (that is rural areas included) is way more then the middle class u talk about. Think on the lines of 100 times more or may be 1000 times, considering Indias population is MORE THAN a BILLION that is 1000000000. Can you see how many zeros there are ? So before you compare with USA think on these lines also. FYI USA population is 300MILLION ONLY! Also do you know how much more area USA has for it 300 Mil population? 1.7 TIMES the land India has. Now u think what point I am trying to make as it seems you think a lot and have a lot to say.
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by kalyan ram on Aug 08, 2007 02:18 PM Permalink
ok. let us not compare india with USA....but can we compare india with china a country which has almost the same problems as india and a country 1.3 billion?.....china's ziang zemin that our country does not want to rush towards democracy immediately, instead when the economic conditions of all the people improve and mature enough for democracy then only they go for democracy......he said china will go democratic in 2060.....so, taking these words did india really deserve democracy? or we had rushed towards democracy without actually improving the economic lives of millions?......day by day we are only becoming an immature democracy......
