[sifar]

>> Free speech and free media are very much alive and well in India.

where :) ? They have become zombies.

>> Btw, I don't have to agree to your definition of democracy. India has its own culture and history of citizen representative governance that is thousands of years old.

This reminds me of the dialogue from Swades, which is so apt. Be proud but don't hide behind the ancient past. You are not living in the past, but here and the now, and that culture is once again being shackled not by outsiders this time but people you have anointed yourself.