The foreign hand: Bibek Debroy tweets a limerick to counter 'weather vane'

Debroy's limerick comes after Rajiv Kumar criticised foreign influence in Indian policy making

Rajiv Kumar, the economist who will be replacing Arvind Panagariya as Niti Aayog vice-chairman wrote in his column in Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran that rumours floating in the national capital, often also called Lutyen's Delhi, suggest that more resignations will follow Panagariya's.

Kumar then went on to lament the influence that foreign education and thought had on Indian policy-making thanks to individuals who were educated abroad getting preference in the Indian set-up. He wrote that in these last few decades, experts who belonged to domestic academic spheres were considered inferior. In his column, he highlighted the Chinese system where, he wrote,