The Trivedi Tutorial

In the 20th year of economic reform, the UPA has checked a box it would wish it hadn’t. It has given reform its first martyr. That distinction (please note that the fact that I have chosen not to qualify this as an “unfortunate” distinction is very deliberate) would have been Dinesh Trivedi’s even if he hadn’t reminded us by invoking Shahid Bhagat Singh this week. Bhagat Singh was given a court trial and then hanged. Trivedi may be gone without being given any hearing by his judge-executioner.

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