INDIA SUMMARIZED

The latest assessment of the government’s performance and calling the prime minister ‘tragic’ has not come as a surprise to most people in the country, not even to the government which is fire-fighting over allegations of new corruption charges against Union ministers every day. If the Time magazine had called Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh an ‘underachiever’, Independent of the UK called him Sonia’s ‘poodle’, Google, the tech giant, went a step further and called the Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh team a ‘poodle doodle’. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has spent a lot of time travelling abroad where he finds himself quite comfortable away from the prying eyes of the domestic media which now suspects every deal and transaction of his government. And him saying that his silence is better than a thousand words spoken drives a wedge in his own party which is rudderless and directionless in the face of an impending advanced mid-term polls. Dr Singh has tried to work out a way to impress...