AN EAR FOR DISSENT |
Dissenting voices are always interesting and there is always something to learn from them, specially in a democracy, designed as it is to have the majority voice always carry the day. Although there can be no credible alternative to this, the danger in such a system is for dissents to remain ignored, unaddressed and unheard, particularly if the system is not sensitive enough or have inbuilt mechanism to take care of these. If the society was more homogeneous perhaps there would have been less problems; for then the communal tinge, (rightly or otherwise), given to political decisions would have been redundant. Instead the debates may have been restricted to just the academic merits of arguments presented. However, such a situation is still a far dream, but we will not stop believing that we will come close to making it a reality someday. As of the present, if the majority voice is too coarse and insensitive, the dissenting minority voices are also overtly sensitive and given too much to reading between the lines. Both extremes are equally incapacitating. Although ethnic differences will always remain, we do hope that someday a strong administration will erase all disparities in terms economic opportunities, so that these ethnic differences do not turn into ethnic divides.
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Courtesy: The Imphal Free Press |
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