What our feuding netas can learn from Suu Kyi

June 01, 2012 17:55

India prides itself as a multi-party democracy -- the world's largest, no less. That even as a low-income country we embraced universal suffrage and empowered every adult citizen with the right to vote also occasions much chest-thumping.

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