One can’t but help sympathise with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has become the victim of circumstance, and unreasonable expectations. The markets surge because he decides to keep the Finance portfolio with himself. Nobody stops to ask whether this was dictated more by choice, or an absence of choices. After all, if he had wanted to be the Finance Minister, he could have anointed himself at the time of forming the government, or even at the time he was forced to shift his then Finance Minister into a job which no one else in his Cabinet wanted at the time.