India’s very own annus horribilis

Some have already dubbed it annus horribilis. Even those who do not wish to go that far are lamenting that 2011 has been a dismal and deeply depressing year. The grim reality is that things today are worse than they were at the end of 2010. To the appalling political mess of the previous year has been added dangerous economic decline. And the Congress-led ruling coalition, no longer united or progressive or even an alliance, seems unable or unwilling to reverse this gloomy state of affairs.

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