Thanks Prem for the interesting take on the developments in the new government. Internal security doesn’t seem to be the only concern. Ashoka Mody here writes about the looming financial crisis: India’s looming financial crisis - https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-looming-financial-crisis/article68278359.ece. Whether the weight of these crises sinks the new government or sinks the country further down seems to be the question. Unfortunately this exact same folks have been around for ten years now and haven’t yet produced any evidence that they have any competence beyond sloganeering and acronyms. Hope it’s going to be better this time.
There are lots of problems lying in wait. The economy is one. Environment/climate change is another, aggravated by the government's notion of development particularly in the sub-Himalayan region that has put entire villages and towns at risk. A retired Major General wrote an article, in The Print I think it was, that the army is dangerously below operational strength; officers both serving and retired tell me that our hardware is both outdated and inadequate for today's warfare. And all this is without taking into account the decline of agriculture, the problem of half your graduates being unemployed or underemployed, the trade deficit is ballooning (and our dependence on China is reaching worrisome proportions), the rupee keeps depreciating which has implications on both foreign trade and our ability to service our debts... There is much more, the above is a very shortlist.
Time to be afraid. Very afraid. Because the people who got the country into this mess are the very same people who are back in the same ministries. Every single one of them is talent deficient; worse, they don't listen to experts -- kursi ki peti baandh lijiye, as the turbulence warning goes.
Thanks Prem for the interesting take on the developments in the new government. Internal security doesn’t seem to be the only concern. Ashoka Mody here writes about the looming financial crisis: India’s looming financial crisis - https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-looming-financial-crisis/article68278359.ece. Whether the weight of these crises sinks the new government or sinks the country further down seems to be the question. Unfortunately this exact same folks have been around for ten years now and haven’t yet produced any evidence that they have any competence beyond sloganeering and acronyms. Hope it’s going to be better this time.
There are lots of problems lying in wait. The economy is one. Environment/climate change is another, aggravated by the government's notion of development particularly in the sub-Himalayan region that has put entire villages and towns at risk. A retired Major General wrote an article, in The Print I think it was, that the army is dangerously below operational strength; officers both serving and retired tell me that our hardware is both outdated and inadequate for today's warfare. And all this is without taking into account the decline of agriculture, the problem of half your graduates being unemployed or underemployed, the trade deficit is ballooning (and our dependence on China is reaching worrisome proportions), the rupee keeps depreciating which has implications on both foreign trade and our ability to service our debts... There is much more, the above is a very shortlist.
Time to be afraid. Very afraid. Because the people who got the country into this mess are the very same people who are back in the same ministries. Every single one of them is talent deficient; worse, they don't listen to experts -- kursi ki peti baandh lijiye, as the turbulence warning goes.