The traditional power centers in the community — the punchayets, the priesthood and the Press (the three Ps) — are apparent to all. But new focal points keep emerging as supremacy shifts. The fluidity and dynamics of such changes are not always obvious. Sometimes it is a persuasive or pushing person, other times it is a quiet and persistent individual; often it is a group of disparate people unwittingly coming together for a common cause. The concept of leadership, of who governs, is changing not only in the community but in the world.
In October 2008, universal adult franchise (UAF) was......