Indian Elections – 5 issues that matter

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With all the election fever going around, I thought it’s time that I put in my views about what I would most like to see changed in the country on a priority basis. I know that there are a lot of things that can be improved, some of them easy to change, and some of … Read more

Indian Elections – Why voting is difficult

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It has been widely observed that the middle class in India doesn’t take part in the electoral process. As of this writing, I’m 26 years of age and have yet to meet a friend of mine who has voted, even though we could have done so almost ten times till now. Why does this happen?

After reading several articles on the net about the responsibility to vote, I am ready to do so for the first time. I want to vote. To not be partly responsible for the mess of politics that we’re in. After all, I have no business to complain if I don’t do at least this much.

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Indian Elections
Indian Elections

However, when I was trying to make a decision, I came across hurdles which seem insurmountable. Here was my experience:

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Extraordinary Human Potential For Excellence

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I have recently recommended “The Count of Monte Cristo” to my wife, and as a result I am myself once more encountering characters that I loved like the Abbe Faria who trained Dante in prison. This extraordinary man, in the limited confines of Prison, had demonstrated the human potential for making the most of what … Read more

Dying Unexpectedly

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I was reading Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” yesterday, and his description of what a man’s state of mind when he is about to be executed really struck a chord. I guess I think of death more than most people – not morbidly, but as a matter of fact, and I always thought that I would face … Read more