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Random voices

Experts and analysts are aplenty. And they all are prone to regale us with their prejudices, dressed up as detached judgments. But, for a change, how about listening to the voices of the average "guys"?

The Hindu correspondents spoke to a representative cross-section of citizens to seek their views on what was wrong, if anything at all, with the politicians and how to cope with their failures and shortcomings.

Our correspondents were able to talk to the following respected citizens:

Dr. A. Subramanian, an Orthopaedics specialist in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu;

Lopamudra Baxipatra, a businesswoman from Bhubaneswar;

Professor Jagdeep S. Chhokar at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad;

P. Balasubramanyam, a vice-president at a stock-brokerage firm in Hyderabad;

Daulat Singh Rajawat, a tourism consultant based in Jaipur;

Abdul Jabbar, a Bhopal-based social activist, working for the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (an NGO group, devoted to securing justice and compensation for the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster victims);

Sindhu, K.V., a Molecular Biology student at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi;

Sulakhan Singh, an agriculturalist in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab;

Bindiya, N.R., a technical support executive with a computer firm in Bangalore;

And, a business executive in Kolkata (who wants to remain anonymous).

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