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What's wrong with politics?
Updated On: 11 December, 2012 06:56 AM IST | | Sushant Singh
Ugly, evil, partisan, self-serving and corrupt. Enter into a discussion about Indian politics, and these are the epithets you commonly end with. But the popular view of politics is not very different elsewhere.
Ugly, evil, partisan, self-serving and corrupt. Enter into a discussion about Indian politics, and these are the epithets you commonly end with. But the popular view of politics is not very different elsewhere. If you read the commentary on American politics, you often hear that its politics is broken, exemplified by the Fiscal Cliff. In an Europe beset with economic difficulties, politics gets blamed for the mess. The countries in Middle east, now experiencing a hangover after the high of Arab Spring last year, are also laying the blame at the door of politics.

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