India a dysfunctional anarchy?

It is the people who lost as the government scored self-goals

About 60 years ago, John Kenneth Galbraith, the US ambassador in New Delhi between 1961 and 1963, characterised India as a “functioning anarchy”. There have been so many heart-breaking reports about Covid-19 patients having to scramble for oxygen and hospital beds in Delhi and several other states for over a month since April 2021. The pandemic has brutally highlighted the inadequacy of India’s administrative systems. And, the government has demonstrated its culpable inability to speed up vaccination in a timely manner. Further, the reports about desperation at mass funerals and bodies thrown into rivers may make Indians wonder if the