Musings: On the Pains of Election

March 10, 2009

Desi Anwar
Senior journalist Desi Anwar can be reached at www.desianwar.com and I>www.dailyavocado.net

THE legislative election is just around the corner and yet the feeling is that after a decade of reforms this country is not getting any better at getting the machine of democracy going.

For a start, barely a month before the polling day I still haven’t received my voter’s card. The other thing is—and I’m sure this sentiment is echoed a

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