India

Dr. Manmohan Singh's meeting with TV journalists came through as a poor attempt whitewash UPA II's weaknesses. Everyone believes that his personal integrity is beyond question but has he already overdrawn on his 'personal honesty' fixed deposits? A national leader must be good but also effective in making his colleagues work as honest and sincere servants of the people. Just being good is not good enough; good has to constantly fight the bad and win. The difference between a manager and leader is while the former may get work out of his followers the latter inspires them to work well beyond the call of duty. It is difficult to see how he can recover from this current tail spin of scams and loss of credibility? Equating the notional revenue loss in the 2G case with subsidy was a very big blunder that is bound to haunt him in the future. His views on compulsions of coalition politics have put DMK in a spot but other partners must also be extracting their pound of flesh. Does India deserve this?