Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Famine in Somalia

To of our sensitive bloggers have reported about famine in Somalia.
Here is one and here is another.
Amartya Sen said that famines do not occur in democracy.
Your poor Alig wishes that someone will say the same thing for an Islamic rule.
Latter will be more true-any Islamic regime allowing famine to take place under its sovereignty will automatically cease to be Islamic.
Democracy can not give any such guarantee-irrespective of what our honourable Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen believes. It is all romanticism. Petis, khokhas, kodas, kalmadis, rajas (whatever is the proper order) will see to it that their interests are above the interests of humanity.

In the meanwhile why are we not behaving as true believers?