democracy

at worst is the downward spiral of competitive darwinian minority-isms. there has to be another way of negotiating than finding the aggrieved minority you're from, (or being defensive against such aggrievement if you're locked in the position of "majority")- this can't be satisfying, making enemies where you don't always regard them so-

2. in india, the public, the anywhere is a prospective space for mayhem. for in the military democracy we live in, any "event"- be it even ever so trivial as a professor's lecture,being "public" is full of security, redundant as india is with labor, even of the security kind. but the street outside, or this side of the metal detector, is available for violence, and will be considered as condemnable, but not strictly speaking a security breach.