From coal to diamond

'A diamond is nothing but a piece of coal who did well under pressure'

This is for al those people who having been victimized or observed the corruption , assails the democracy and supports somewhat improbable or out the box solution to the malaise stating that solution is dictatorship. I don't support the idea but perhaps it was worth mulling before i started with ' Argumentative indian' by Amartya sen. A wonderful holistic picture of india explaining all the knotty points covering the centuries old history.
democracy really gives you the independence of putting your views with any hindrance. Remember the emergency raised by indira gandhi . The picture appeared rosy initially but with time the public realized and started missing their rights and the result was that congress was out ( thrashed is the right word) in the next election . Thats the real power of democracy , that one vote you carry . But still needs to explore ways to reach out to common man and make him realize the difference between the biscuit earned and cheese to lure the mice.

Arguments are the only ways to reach to a fruitful conclusion and everybody irrespective of his position , maturity , knowledge ( i have changed the parametrs from caste , sex, religion which were there in the book) should be given a fair chance. I would say that sometimes its not the speaker who provides the solution but the listener who generated a conclusion out of the arguments. Its all about about active listening.

Above ideas are not from the book per se but generated by me after reading it.
The great history kings like Ashoka and Akbar , rising above the religion factor and appointed people from different cultures in their court to advise him. Some times we need heterodoxy which will become a new benchmark or the rule to be followed in future. Those can be rebellious but who knows we might miss one copernicus who discovered the right planetary movements around the sun rather than the earth which was concurred by the church in those times.