Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
>
> who would have thought that the economist, while arguing that india's
> biggest problem is its bureaucracy, would write a paean to the
> overworked babu?
>
I strongly suspect that this journalist read some Kipling, and then went on to
try find out if the situation was still the same
Earnest young brit collector on the pak - afghan border, kipling's favorite
ground - in the 1840s, earnest young northeastern collector in a bandit
district plagued with mayawati along with the dacoits now .. not much of a
difference there. The system functions because of them. And it grinds them
down too.
srs
