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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

LEFT CRUMBLING

The by election results in West Bengal and Kerala signal a precipitous decline in the prospects for the Left parties in India.

Our Bureaucracy, Our Selves

A recent survey finding by Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy that India’s bureaucracy is the stiflingly worst in Asia comes as no surprise. Our debate on bureaucracy reform gets nowhere because it rests on simplistic assumptions.

Fresh Mandate

The UPA now has an unprecedented opportunity to secure the foundations of India’s long term prosperity. Parliamentary arithmetic favours a stable government. Political opposition both from the Left and the BJP is, at the moment, so diminished that the government is now in a position to think...

The politics of drift

A unique spectacle - Indian elections have been a great leveller. When the mightiest plead for the votes of the aam janta, it exhibits the people power to perfection. As the largest democracy in the world votes for its representatives, we track its journey

Good intentions to go nowhere

The one thing the contemporary crisis has taught us is this. The performance of governments should not be judged only on the contemporary numbers, but also on the extent to which they bequeath predictable structural problems for the immediate future.
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