The more ' largest democracy in the world and 'try an exercise in democratic par excellence, namely the vote.
Hundreds of millions of Indians in three subsequent rounds went to the polls after having participated in civil passion and dedication to a long and lively campaign.
election campaign in which and 'talked about trifles, such as the relationship between Hindus' and Muslims, the distribution of wealth in the country has growth rates of 10 percentage points a year for nearly a decade, relations with Pakistan, the international position.
We're talking about a giant for more than a billion inhabitants, along with China, is the axis of the world economy. A country that is experiencing not only but an economic boom and that 'even at the height in areas of advanced technology, in short, a long time, we are well beyond the typical developing economy that depends only on the compression of the cost of labor and the exploitation of raw materials. India and 'also at the center of a remarkable vitality' and creativity 'cultural: most of audiovisual products in the world are moving to that country. From Africa to 'Asia will consume the movie musicals and Indian music. Indian intellectual and political life to the debate on globalization and social effects of neoliberalism. The left, from us and 'moribund and lifeless, they, however, is expressed in a variety' of items, from the more 'orthodox to the most' libertarian and innovative. This subcontinent and 'also a melting pot of nationalism that lap racism: Hindu nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. E 'in a phase in which the overcoming of poverty and much slower than the speed' of economic development, and this is intertwined with a heavy agrarian question and a social stratification into castes that will have to 'be overcome by a democratic process but that in this phase coexists with a company 'in perennial and, anyway, virtuous transformation. India and 'immersed in contradictions sometimes dramatic, in vintage giant steps, but it lives with the power of ideas, the knowledge that you have in hand their own destiny and, above all, with the enthusiasm of one who knows that his present and 'building the future and not the mere flotation or retention of some income ..
It 's not a hagiographic description of India, but rather the image of a giant agile in movement. And every act of this movement, 'not only important for the fate of that country but the whole globe and not only from the economic point of view but also socially and culturally.
however, hear or read articles about what is going on over there and 'almost' impossible. With few exceptions (see Federico Rampini) and our provincialism ' the yardstick by which we evaluate things and ignore the world.
The "cover" media of the election, because of its size and features and 'unique in the world, and' was, to say the least, minimal, with bits of folklore and continued failure to consider more 'custom than of substance: not to mention the complete absence of any connection between this event and global developments. There
'touched to read once again the taste of gossip items about the "Dynasty" Gandhi and even nth calls Italianness' or, worse still, 'Piedmont' of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. But what
and 'success in India? E 'success has largely won the elections, the Congress Party, an organization founded by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of modern India and independent from Nehru, one of the most' prestigious leader of the third world, who along with Tito, Fidel Castro and other progressive third-world leaders from the 50 and 60, gave birth to the Non-Aligned Movement. A party that since he 'built to date, and' always been firmly in the secular camp and progressive: he ruled in the previous term (apart from last year) to the front of the Left, including both strong Indian communist parties, among other things, for decades govern two states (Kerala and Bengal) of the federation India.
opponent of the Congress Party and 'training traits strongly Hindu nationalist, anti-Muslim with very strong xenophobic traits (in India there are hundreds of millions of Muslims), iperliberista in economics and authoritarian vision of the state. In practice, a classic right-wing populist formation.
a comparison of this kind, with these subjects and these subjects in the field, gave a result not at all obvious, very different from what time, for example, is happening in many parts of Europe. It 'important or not that this polarization between opposing options, in a country of over a billion people, will develop in a certain way and give the results of this kind? Food should not interest, curiosity 'and perche'no also intent emulators? A place on the political, cultural entitled to it or not?
A little too much, perhaps, for our provincial self-importance, of much more 'weight and relevance to what happens in the tiny Carinthia, the province of small and marginal Austria. Treatment
much worse, even (let us say) with veins unconsciously (we hope) has been the racist South Africa. Make sure to read the news of recent elections, all focusing on the wives and the habits of those who then won the election. Analysis of zero, considerations much less, any more interrelated with international affairs' wide, never mind.
what is happening in Asia and Africa, like it or not, constitutes a basic element of a new world order. The energy game, rather than financial, social and even cultural aspects are the key to their occurrence, not in the old continent but elsewhere.
Where? How? How? With such language "with which cultures? Arduous and ... 'the answer, for those who are' still in the blather sarkosate, Berlusconi, Merkel etc etc. ...!
Fino Luigi
