While West Bengal's chief minister takes a cavalier stand against the growing unrest in the state's northern hills, South Korea's president has apologised to his people over a crisis that came close to toppling his government. I bring these two apparently unrelated events together to emphasise a simple-but-often-ignored truth of public policy: arrogance breeds all the problems, modesty solves them.
South Korea's crisis stemmed from an unlikely cause
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