Democracy is good when it is seen on ground under all circumstances. A biased selected application of it at some places and gross violation of it at most other places renders it not only worthless and useless but just a rhetoric.
You might be wondering what I am talking about here. It was a photo that finally made me give vent to these expressions. It was a photo of a man in Srinagar protesting against the bad treatment of Kashmiri prisoners in various jails inside Jammu and Kashmir and outside. It was okay as long as the picture had this person protesting but not to be. He had company. Six of them. All in police uniform dragging him and hitting him with their batons. These were the cops in Kashmir trying to probably prevent this dangerous person from registering his protest against something very shameful. Ironically there was a shop(closed) in the background. The front shutter of the shop was rolled down and it had an ad on it. The ad was of a soda and it read 'CRUSH'. Yes, crush is a soda. Apparently, the cops took a cue from it.
This is democracy for you in Kashmir and most of the politicians out there are proud of this form of democracy in Kashmir and brag about it in the international forums where people hardly see it working on the ground. Shame.
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