Chanakya's New Manifesto: To Resolve the Crisis Within India (35 page)

4
    Dhiraj Nayyar and Shravya Jain, ‘Data reveals India’s alarming job squeeze’,
India Today,
10 September 2012.

5
    Rakesh Bharti Mittal, ‘Rejuvenating India’s agriculture sector’,
Economic Times
, 2 January 2012.

6
    Srivatsa Krishna, ‘Six steps to finding light in the darkness’,
Times of India,
5 August 2012.

7
    Dr D. Subba Rao, in the Haksar Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh, 25 November 2011.

8
    Kanti Bajpai, ‘Needed urgently: An education revolution’,
Times of India
, 4 February 2012.

9
    Jagdish Bhagwati and Rajeev Kohli, ‘Selling the wrong idea’,
Times of India
, 12 December 2011.

10
  Renaud Francois on the WGI, October, 2008.

11
  Rajinder Puri, ‘President can sack government!’,
The Statesman
, 15 March 2012.

12
  M.J. Akbar, ‘Cancer at heart of democracy’,
Dawn
, 28 August 2011.

13
  PTI, ‘India fares badly in regulating money in politics’,
Hindustan Times
, 2 April 2012.

14
  Kuldip Nayar,
The Statesman
, 1 March 2012.

15
  Syed Nazakat and Soni Mishra, ‘Black money in Indian elections’,
The Week,
11 March 2012.

16
  Background Paper on Election Reforms, issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice and co-sponsored by the ECI, December, 2010, p. 29.

17
  Ibid, p. 31.

18
  Ibid, p. 11.

19
  Ibid, p. 11, 12.

20
  Amartya Sen,
The Idea of Justice,
p. 9, 20.

21
  Ibid, p. 20.

22
  Richard Lannoy,
The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society,
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 294.

23
  Prof. F.H. Bailey, cited in Lannoy,
The Speaking Tree,
(see Note 22 above), p. 294.

24
  Nidhi Sen, Citizen’s Charters: Putting People First,
www.infochangeindia.org

25
  ‘Corruption is rampant in lower courts’, Interview of V.N. Khare by Chandrani Banerjee,
Outlook,
9 July 2012.

26
  2
^nd
Administrative Reforms Commission Report, Government of India.

27
  Ibid, p 53.

28
  Ibid, p. 51.

29
  Ibid, p. 97.

30
  Bibek Debroy, ‘$500 bn black money? Here’s a small attempt to inject some sense’,
Economic Times,
19 February 2012.

31
  Vikram Sood, ‘Getting it all wrong’,
Hindustan Times
, 4 July 2012.

32
  Ashok Malik, ‘Served by black swans’,
Hindustan Times
, 28 March 2012.

33
  Stephen P. Cohen,
India: Emerging Power,
New Delhi; Oxford University Press, 2001, third impression, 2003, p, 8.

34
  Ibid.

35
  Shekhar Gupta,
The Indian Express,
31 March 2012.

36
  Jaswant Singh, ‘Governance please’,
Indian Express
, 29 March 2012.

37
  International Institute of Strategic Studies, ‘The Military Balance 2012 Report
’
,
Economic Times,
11-17 March 2012.

38
  ‘Recommendations in the Executive Summary’, Kargil Committee Report, February 2000.

39
  Verghese Koithara,
Managing India’s Nuclear Forces,
Routledge, 2012.

40
  ‘This NCTC is a highly watered down version of the original’, Interview of Gopal Krishna Pillai by Namrata Bijli Ahuja,
The Asian Age
, 26 February 2012.

41
  Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s Speech at the Chief Minister’s Conference, New Delhi, 16 April 2012.

42
  For a fascinating account of the operation read Graham Allison’s cover story for
Time
, ‘The last days of Osama Bin Laden’, 7 May 2012.

43
  Ibid.

44
  Tapan Kumar Banerjee, ‘Confronting the Maoists: A law-and-order approach or development initiative?’,
The Statesman,
28 June 2012.

45
  Editorial,
The Telegraph,
21 November 2011.

46
  See Rajiv Kumar and Souyma Kanti Ghosh, ‘Subsidy: It will not stop at Rs 60,000 cr’,
The Financial Express,
15 February 2012.

47
  D.N. Sahaya, ‘India’s social welfare for social poor’,
The Statesman,
9 May 2012.

48
  Jitender Singh, ‘Trade-off of workers between MGNREGS and Manufacturing’, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

49
  FICCI’s Twelve Point Action Agenda, June 2012.

50
  Independent Commission on Development and Health in India (ICDHI)

51
  Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, ‘Supreme court says auction natural resources. Water too?’,
The Times of India,
8 April 2012.

52
  Arvind Panagariya, ‘Instead of celebrating the fall in poverty numbers, critics within and outside UPA keep carping’,
Economic Times,
18 April 2012.

53
  Ibid, 28 March 2012.

54
  Surjit S. Bhalla, ‘Gandhi’s experiments with populism’,
The Indian Express
, 14 July 2012.

55
  Minhaz Merchant, ‘Bold policy move can raise GDP growth to 9%, unshackling another 25 million from poverty’,
Economic Times,
5 May 2012.

56
  Ashok Gulati, ‘Switch from farm subsidy to farm investment’,
Economic Times,
6 August 2012.

57
  Amitabh Kant, ‘The heart of the matter’,
Times of India,
29 June 2012.

58
  K. Anji Reddy, ‘Past its sell-by date’,
Hindustan Times,
16 May 2012.

59
  A Review of Charities Administration in India,
Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy,
Sponsored by The Planning Commission, Government of India, September 2004.

60
  Ibid.

61
  Ibid.

62
  Ibid.

63
  Pushpa Sundar, ‘Don’t pass the buck’,
Hindustan Times,
10 July 2012.

64
  ‘Affirmative Action: Empowering Society for a Brighter Tomorrow’, a document published by the CII.

65
  Project Chirag.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to my editor David Davidar for keeping faith in this book and coming to Bhutan to read the first draft. We have been friends for twenty-five years but my friendship with him has never obscured my deep appreciation of his skills as an editor. A special salute to the ever smiling but uncompromisingly rigorous Simar Puneet, who stoically ploughed through the manuscript, but did not hold it against me. To Hina Mobar, who heads the young and dynamic marketing team at Aleph, a big thank you; and to Aienla Ozukum, a salaam for unfailing efficiency. For my young colleague in the Foreign Service, Piyush Shrivastava, who was posted with me to Bhutan, a shukriya for his research inputs and insights. My son, Vedanta, a budding lawyer, was steamrolled ever so often to give his viewpoint or check out an opinion or fact: thank you, son, for not complaining. Renuka, my wife, travels with me on the journey of each of my books. I could never have done it alone. And finally, to the countless people I met—academics, columnists, politicians, social activists, ordinary citizens and friends—too numerous to mention individually, who took time to share their opinion, a heartfelt dhanyavad.

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