In this post, I argue the case for democracy, starting with some abstract ideas and then relating them to today’s Bangladesh. Nothing here is original, but reading some comments over the past few days, I feel that it is worth reiterating various arguments for democracy.
April 26, 2007
On democracy
April 17, 2007
Peaceful co-existence
What were Bangladesh’s biggest problems before 1/11? Corruption, nepotism, misuse of power one might answer. One can summarise these as an absence of the rule of law. Probe a bit deeper about why there was no rule of law and one is told ‘it was the politics, stupid’. After 1990, we trusted the politicians with our democracy and they mucked it up — that’s how the narrative goes.
