http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/indian_experience_3535.jsp Comments for "The heart of it all: openDemocracy's first article, Tani Bhargava Rajeev Bhargava " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/indian_experience_3535.jsp <p> By virtue of their legitimate capacity to throw &quot;paper stones&quot; at their ostensible rulers, ordinary people have begun to feel that those rulers can be made accountable. </p> <p> Radical democratic theory never tires of claiming that democracy means something deeper and wider than mere elections, that to have real substance, democracy must embody social and economic equality. </p> <p> So indeed it is. But it is mistaken to think that the deeper sense of democracy is necessarily opposed to or obfuscated by its other, narrow political meaning. A real and tangible connection exists in India between elections and, if not equality of wealth and income, at least equality of status. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/indian_experience_3535.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/indian_experience_3535.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/indian_experience_3535.jsp#comment asia &amp; pacific globalisation Original Copyright Rajeev Bhargava Tani Bhargava visions &amp; reflections Tue, 13 May 2008 21:59:00 +0100 3535 at http://www.opendemocracy.net