Democ-kery

I believe the best definition of the word ‘democracy’ was described recently to me when I asked a rickshaw-puller bhayya last week about his notion of world politics. His response summed up and loosely translated: the function of alcohol is intoxication, do I really care about how beautifully ornamented the decanter happens to be? I think his little speech was only short of the label and the price tag that he perhaps was not poetic enough, drenched in sweat under that hot afternoon sun, to add on, but left little to my apparent intellectual imagination! (Read More)