Testing waters

It is now almost 12 years that Manmohan Singh, once a mandarin, has held political office. Twelve years is a long time in politics and should have been enough to tell him where a mandarin’s job ends and a politician’s begins. But his reliance on mandarins, rather than on elected politicians, seems to cause him no end of trouble. Hardly has the dust settled on the Anna Hazare fiasco when the prime minister walks into another mess.

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