On Democracy ...

Is democracy the rule of the majority or the rule of the empowered activist minority?
The way things are moving in India I would suggest that democracy everywhere is nothing but the rule of a privileged few, who utilise the fiction of the rule of majority to gain their own legitimacy.

Is it time to start once again...?

Here is something I thought I MUST put at the LAWSPOT.

"We are formally under a Constitution but by the grace of world corporatecracy, under American hegemony. Gandhi's Swadeshi is dead. Nehru's socialism is under eclipse. The Constitution is comatose and the courts are drowned in oceanic litigation. Dalits have none to lead and there is chaos in the cosmos. The court itself has changed its class character. E.M.S. Naboodiripad was punished for contempt when he poined out the class character of the judiciary but today the judicial class has secured larger emoluments, more power over the other two branches and justice, especially social justice, is in a precarious condition. The past projects itself into the present and the tryst with destiny madeby Indians cannot be betrayed."

From, V.R. Krishna Iyer, "the Noble Preamble: We have Promises to Keep"

Things are Moving Up

I always have wondered why the world is the way it is.
Why is it that only those men who are either saints or sinners remain the remebered ones and not the ordinary mortals like you and me who toil all day and make each others life an enjoyable one?
Now I get the idea that the saints and sinners are remembered only for the sole purpose of reminding the rest of the humans the absolute uselessness in living a life like theirs.
So, now things have started to move up....