3 wasted years

On the third anniversary of 26/11, it would not be out of order to look back at the “changes” which were effected to the national security mechanism post that terrible terrorist outrage. Like most government attempts to send signals of “new beginnings”, UPA-1, then on re-election mode, decided to sack its lethargic Home Minister, Shivraj Patil. It also banished the non-performing National Security Adviser, MK Narayanan, to gubernatorial loneliness, and in conformity with the greatest of Indian traditions of forming more fatuous institutions to replace the existing ones, announced the formation of a slew of new bureaucratic bodies.

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