Indian idol and democracy!

At the moment nine contestants are there and in every session of the competition, one participant has to quit the race on the basis of the voting result!

A panel of judges, comprising many celebrities of the Indian music world, also attends each session and passes their comment on each singer after his/her performance. Unfortunately, the judges often get extremely disappointed when they find that a highly qualified (in terms of melody, beat, pronunciation of lyrics, etc.) singer is knocked out of the competition owing to irrational public voting! The judges have the say that the members of the public do not understand the science and systems in music, they vote on their personal emotion, sometimes even on sympathy!

As an almost regular viewer of 'Indian Idol' programme, I have also noted that qualities are often ignored by the voters something one would also notice in our political democracy good people and truly deserving candidates sometimes fail to win an election due to 'poor' voting!