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I, as an Indian am tired of the 'World's Biggest Democracy' label. I feel it is a clever way for India's politicians to mask huge problems we face as a democracy - rampant social inequality, throwing money at problems that need creative solutions cotinuous effort and commitment etc.

Except for very few states, turn up for elections seldom crosses 50%. If the number of people participating is the measure for biggest, I would think there are other places with bigger participation in the electoral process.



    >huge problems.. social inequality.. turn up for elections seldom crosses 50%
Sorry to be depressing, but that sounds pretty par-for-the-course democracy to me. Particularly the turn out.


As an American in politics, I dearly wish I could get 35% of my countrymen to vote in the elections that most impact their lives.




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