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Democracy can flourish in India only if every citizen resists the will to dominate and accepts the reality and equality of others... more»

This from Arts and Letters and NYRB, which India does require attention, but Dude!, that blurb! Cancels it's own claim. I though democracy was a political system in which no citizen really had to accept these realities because the law and the governments accepted them. We have democracy, but we do not have radical ethics... oh, yeh. Without radical ethis, we don't really have democracy -- we have "by the people" but not "for the people". Which gets me to this from Flooded Lizard Kingdom: The Gay Bomb.

Also this:

Weddings are expensive, he told his daughter. So you can have one, or you can have $30,000 to get started in life. “I’ll take the wedding,” she said... more»

Poor girl. That was a bad bet.