The pending raj

It is that time of the year when the United Progressive Alliance celebrates survival. In this mid-summer madness, hosannas will be offered to reigning deities, the drubbing in the recent polls will be classified as a 3/5 triumph and defeat will be applauded as victory. It is that occasion when ministers, mandarins and mahamantris will define existence as an achievement even as apparatchiks project pious intent as beneficial outcome. As the drum beaters put up tablets of command performance.

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