Is Majority always Right ??

Is Majority always right ? I don't think so, particularly when faced with a complex issue.

Let us not be carried away by the huge turn out at the Ramlila grounds 

At a Washington, D.C., press conference in 1952, Churchill was asked, "Doesn't it thrill you … to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?"

Sir Winston: "It is quite flattering, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big."

I remember, while in High School,  we had a maths teacher who used to make us solve entire sets of problems as homework. The next day in the class, he would call for volunteers to solve the questions on the blackboard. For easier questions, a number of hands went up, but for difficult ones, there were very few. There were no punishments for failure and the reward for solving a difficult question was the thrill of walking up to the blackboard and having the entire class listen to you. It is only logical that when faced with difficult questions , the majority is clueless and it is a minority which gets it right.

So is it in real life; the only difference is that while in a class room, the questions are objective and the minority which gets it right, is heard, whereas in real life situations, issues are subjective and the majority hogs the centre stage.

Regarding, Anna Hazare's Movement, be it on print media, TV Channels or even in the cyberspace you hear only the majority view and the few dissenting voices are dismissed as 'congress stooge' . Someone has compiled a lot of information on the subject , including voices of dissent ...

http://janlokpalbillannahazare.blogspot.com/

Since it is the dissents that are rare to find, I recommend the link

http://janlokpalbillannahazare.blogspot.com/search/label/Dissent

Then there is a well researched article by Mukul Sharma (science writer and journalist), first published in May 2006. The paper covers the developmental work organized by Anna Hazare, at his village Ralegan Siddhi .

http://janlokpalbillannahazare.blogspot.com/2011/04/making-of-moral-authority-by-mukul.html

Along with much publicized good work done by Anna Hazare, it also highlights some of his methods to deal with family planning and prohibition, which to say the least are highly questionable.