India rolls down the hill

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Constitution last Sunday, speaker after opposition speaker pointed out that while democratic norms have been tenuously maintained, the promise of social and economic equity is nowhere near being achieved for the bulk of the people, and that the system swamped by a tsunami of corruption and inefficiency at all levels of the government cannot cope. That this was declaimed with a straight face by many party leaders and members of Parliament facing grave charges of financial irregularity, malfeasance, and possession of wealth...

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