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The Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh reforms opened the gates to the creation of new wealth.The Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh reforms opened the gates to the creation of new wealth. Until 1952 the Maharaja of Baroda owned a controlling share of the equity in Fortnum & Mason, the chic food shop in Piccadilly that a footman of Queen Anne’s started in 1707 and which is still grocer to Queen Elizabeth II. Being astute practitioners of the art of the possible, politicians have their finger on the public pulse, and know it has been dinned into generations of orthodox Hindus that it was smart to call an elephant after a great warrior and kill it in order to trick and vanquish the warrior’s otherwise invincible father.Victorian England bristled with social contrasts and conflicts but it was also the age of scientific inquiry, technological innovation, social experimentation and imperial expansion, with no constraints on thinking and scholarship. Seven decades is of course only a blip in the countless millennia of Indian nationhood. They themselves set down the information regarding murder, attempted murder, crimes against women including rape and kidnapping, culpable homicide, house trespass, robbery and criminal intimidation in their sworn affidavits, even to Euro plugs listing the 204 criminal cases that didn’t prevent a Kerala politician being elected to Parliament. Nor do police stations and law courts baulk at accepting obviously fabricated charges. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh laid the foundations of the modern state, could be crucial in defining the future.” That might well be said of India’s legislatures as our republic steps into its 71st year. But these 70 years, especially the last 30 since the reforms initiated by P.

It’s also forgotten that Ratan Tata’s forays with Tetley Tea and Jaguar Land Rover are not India’s first ventures in international commerce.No wonder Indian courts do not admit the common law doctrine of Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, “false in one thing, false in everything”, meaning witnesses who testify falsely about one matter can’t be believed when testifying on any matter. As in post-Soviet Russia, the subsequent capitalism blurred the distinction between the government and tycoons so that it is often not clear whose is the upper hand, who orders and who obeys.Some hardened criminal-politicians are actually proud of their record. They have always been with us. However impeccable the high courts and the Supreme Court might be, India’s lower judiciary must be the worst in the world. The fear here is that our universities and other academic institutions are being brought under official control, with the democratic consensus behind the government faltering as independent thinking yields to empty bombast. The epics bestow respectability on legends in which the simple place implicit faith. Our lawyers argue that falsehood is often necessary to establish the truth. P V Narasimha Rao (Photo: PTI/File) Asked if he prayed for America’s senators, a chaplain to the United States Senate once replied: “No, I look at the senators and pray for the country. Others who have been weaned on the myths and legends of the supposedly golden age of Hindu ascendancy to which India is being dragged back innocently believe that the Mahabharat and Ramayan sanction and even glorify cleverness on the shady side.If the Senate chaplain looked at our governance, he would probably pray not just for the country but for the world. Credibility matters. Deploring the imposition of British jurisprudence, Penderel Moon of the Indian Civil Service cited instances of witnesses who were for sale and their concocted evidence leading to innocent people being executed