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To: kumar who wrote (409)	4/20/2009 5:46:12 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 608

Let's just say I'm glad you're an American citizen. How is your mother?

To: kumar who wrote (409)	4/21/2009 10:35:15 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 608

kumar, the election politics in India is similar to that of Israel and even here with the "gerrymandering" concept. I don't think any country can claim that their democratic process is better than those in other countries. The remarkable thing about India is that in spite of having a high rate if illiteracy, they fiercely defend their right to be free and to choose their government. Or else, how do you explain that the constituents of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, voted her out of office. In that election even her party lost in a landslide in 1976. Indira Gandhi had poured millions of dollars into her constituency and people said "she had paved those roads in her district in gold." But then when it came time to vote, they were so angry at her for imposing a state of emergency and suspending all constitutional rights for period of 4 years before the polls, those people went to the polls in large numbers and voted her and her party out of office in a landslide. Baffling to the students of political science, isn't it? Welcome to the exotic land called India which the British still consider as one of their crown jewels.