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<!---->Ulhas: I must simply raise an eyebrow at this: "India has been an
independent and democratic (in liberal sense) state for over 50 years. That
in a country with 1 bn people, great cultural diversity and poverty on a
vast scale."<br>
I am sure that neither of us wishes to indulge in long polemics. but "liberal
democratic" is surely not an adequate description of a state like India over
the last 50 years, where poverty allows such ready vote-buying etc etc. <br>
Hari <br>
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