I would like to raise a question regarding the critical mass in a social movement...the question is: What really is the critical mass for a movement and the uninvolvement of some unrelated in the movement hampers the collective action???
Sometimes it happens that a major part of the society also keeps away from the movement but they always wat to havea critical voice about the system or collective action....
Today indian democracy is seen as very dismal picture painted by corruption, inresponsible politicians, religion based elections....and we as civil sciety alwys see it and criticize it.....it's very easy to comment about Dhoni's decision when we are sitting in front of TV...it's the same when we comment about our democracy...
Since last three general election we are not able to elect a single party to govern us....when democracy started in india,it was thought to be the collective voice of indians when it comes to power and government. But here comes the question of critical masses....Why we always have the time to criticize system being outside it??? Why can't we be a part of that system? I don't even expect that we should join politics...but atleast exercise the voting power....it is very bad situation when it comes to voting share of urban india,where we all civil society people are living....and even in that urban share most of the part is contributed by slum dwellers and poors of the urban india...where is that critical mass of intellectuals and civil society( not claiming that no one from these strata goes for voting)??
Our democracy is heavily dependent on our vote-our voice.....
We have failed to deliver it over the years....this is not the failure of democracy...but basically a failure of mass action....failure of individuals to identify them as a part of a larger system.......
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in my view we somewhat take it for granted the things that we get inherently.the same happens in case of our rights and duties....we want to be part of the system without contributing anything from our side.how it is possible is again questionable.until we change by ourselves,until we become responsible towards the system,we should not expect.after all system is collection of people and works as directed by them....
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