FOR the man in the street ‘democracy’ is a synonym for stomach. In future one may hear patients say, “ I have a terrible flatulence in my democracy” or “My democracy is aching”.
For some democracy means a mechanism which has been put in place for making public funds evaporate with lightning rapidity.
I heard a beggar outside a mosque saying aloud, “Almighty there is nothing you cannot do. The stomachs of our rulers are like bottomless wells. Equip these with bottoms.”
Azmat Ansari
Karachi
Published in Dawn, September 17th, 2014