The availability of intolerance

One of the strange things about democratic India is that democracy has become a label which tells us little about its contents. Our leaders talk of democracy in formal terms, as rule of law, elections, civic culture, but democracy is also a set of attitudes, of values. Among the most precious ideas of democracy is tolerance, plurality and diversity. The beauty of diversity is that you multiply the number of solutions so that more people have access to it. Diversity allows for differences to co-exist, interact, dialogue and even be synergetic. That was one of the great charms of our religious and medical systems.

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