'The government is run for the benefit of politicians, bureaucrats, judiciary and the professional class. The rest be damned,' says former Cabinet secretary T S R Subramaniam.
Recent investigations into the telecom spectrum and coal scams have made bureaucrats very wary of taking decisions.
Often when I meet a new Indian friend, who is not aware of my background, he exclaims: "So many years in India! but why, why? I can't understand! My dream is to go to the States or Europe and you are living in 'this' country!" Claude Arpi, who was born a Frenchman, looks back on his 40 years in India.
