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• Election in India Boggles

Yet [Manmohan Singh]'s government has made scant progress towards one of the main goals it set itself in 2004. This was to reform India's creaking, corrupt administrative structures so that policies formulated in Delhi might actually be implemented in the villages where most Indians still live. To Singh's credit, it is the plight of the poorest, not India's GDP growth figures, that is usually the starting point for his policy speeches. This is also shrewd: The poor do not care about his achievements as a diplomat and globalizer, which scarcely impinge on their lives. In power, the BJP also had a creditable record of economic management. But it has not escaped its origins as the political wing of the Hindutva, or "Hindu-ness" movement. That has an extremist fringe that has at times been ...

...Nor are their alleged offences all petty. They include murder, rapes and kidnaps....

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 09, 2009