Once again, governance let us down

May 27, 2004 on 2:54 pm | In Financial Times, Newspapers | No Comments

NEW DELHI–Despite strong economic growth, good monsoons, improved relations with Pakistan and America, and a new mood of national self-assuredness, (plus a winning cricket team!) Indians were unwilling to forgive bad governance, and so they threw out one of India’s better governments. Continue reading…

India’s New Self -Assuredness

May 3, 2004 on 12:27 pm | In Newspapers, Wall Street Journal | No Comments

NEW DELHI — Next Monday, India’s general elections — which began on April 20 — will finally conclude. In an exercise that was both staggered and staggering, 670 million Indians will have had the opportunity to vote at 700,000 polling booths via 1.1 million voting machines — with all this, the greatest democratic show on earth, supervised by 5.5 million state officials. Continue reading…

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