Arun Shourie| Tigers, termites and tenacity | Economist.com
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Mr Shourie sees the politicians themselves as obstacles to getting things done. “The quality of many who people our public life—that is not democracy, it is disarray, it is free-fall.” Yet he refuses to use India's democratic system as an excuse for the country's painfully slow pace of economic progress over the past 20 years compared with China. “Governance”, he argues, “is not golf: that we are a democracy does not entitle us to a handicap.”
Mr Shourie sees the politicians themselves as obstacles to getting things done. “The quality of many who people our public life—that is not democracy, it is disarray, it is free-fall.” Yet he refuses to use India's democratic system as an excuse for the country's painfully slow pace of economic progress over the past 20 years compared with China. “Governance”, he argues, “is not golf: that we are a democracy does not entitle us to a handicap.”
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