Bungling government

India is an emerging economy. We are now emerging as one of the important players on the world stage. There are many forces that would not like to see India realize its true place in the Comity of Nations. We must not play into their hands. We must not create an environment in which our economic progress is hijacked by internal dissension.

Indira Gandhi reborn? Not really, this is the never-elected Manmohan Singh who is seeing signs of a "foreign hand" in the popular uprising against the corruption in his government. The hamhandedness of the government response - trying to put the blame of Anna Hazare's arrest on the police, portraying Anna as corrupt, and last but not least - attempting to present Rahul Gandhi as the person responsible for his "release" - reflects the lack of leadership that the party currently suffers from.

Perhaps, the bunch of lawyers advising the PM should seek solace in Chidambaram's earlier statement - the response cannot be termed "intelligence failure" - there was no intelligence after all !