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| Nov 19, 2008 10:58 am |
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re: Elections and Disclosures... |
| RVIyengar
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Re: “What is the Right to Information, if it cannot be used to bring about an effective change....”
True.
But unfortunately people do not take a long and hard look at such information before voting (if at all they do).
Often factors like caste, religion, language, and region influence electoral politics and the choices that people make.
And, again, there is not much to choose between. All the candidates appear to be made of same stuff.
Also, more than 50 percent of the population is still reeling under poverty. Though there is some improvement in the literacy rate, what we call education is anything but education, for it does not equip an individual to reason and analyse and make right choices. (The recent caste clash between two groups of students at a Law college in Chennai is a case in point.)
In such a scenario, even if a candidate sneaks in details like he had murdered so and so and earned as much through corrupt ways, it is not going to be noticed.
Sometimes, while reading the newspaper or watching the news channels, I feel depressed. I switch over to novels and music channels to change my mood. I choose to believe that things will smoothen themselves out.
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