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Unhealthy hiatus

  • 30/01/2005

Unhealthy hiatus India has been enduring a tragedy for the past 250 years: government structures incongruous with the essential character of our traditional society, our samaaj, have been imposed on us. And this power of the State has only increased. That's why we see that the government machinery is incapable of delivering basic services. At the same time, the society hasn't created a system that is more suitable. Prime minister Manmohan Singh's statement in his Independence Day speech (that "governments cannot be wished away') is an acceptance that the government