Nitish Kumar has mastered the rhythm of renewal in Bihar. In a democracy of churn and chance, endurance may be the rarest—and most refined—form of political art.
While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
On a lighter note, we have moved from blaming Nehruji for our economic woes to blaming Vajpayeeji – that must count as progress. 2. History did not stop in 2001. Dr Singh served as PM for a decade, earned that privilege because of good work done as PM PVNR’s FM. Assisted by acknowledged reformers like P Chidambaram and Sharad Pawar, he should have made the case to his party president, also to the often truculent Left, that global high growth which was lifting all boats should not lull India into complacency, major reforms should be undertaken, spacing out the pain of adjustment over several years. The present government had a fantastic mandate, oodles of political capital. Not meant to be expended on demonetisation, surely. 3. India should get serious about economic reform and sustainably higher growth. We are struggling to hold on to traditional space even in the Maldives.
On a lighter note, we have moved from blaming Nehruji for our economic woes to blaming Vajpayeeji – that must count as progress. 2. History did not stop in 2001. Dr Singh served as PM for a decade, earned that privilege because of good work done as PM PVNR’s FM. Assisted by acknowledged reformers like P Chidambaram and Sharad Pawar, he should have made the case to his party president, also to the often truculent Left, that global high growth which was lifting all boats should not lull India into complacency, major reforms should be undertaken, spacing out the pain of adjustment over several years. The present government had a fantastic mandate, oodles of political capital. Not meant to be expended on demonetisation, surely. 3. India should get serious about economic reform and sustainably higher growth. We are struggling to hold on to traditional space even in the Maldives.