Waiting to exhale, then get going

The snap and crackle generated by legislative Assembly elections in five states was electrifying

Writing in a blog for the Vivekananda International Foundation, the chairman of Prasar Bharati, A Surya Prakash, has some advice for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The context was demonetisation. Prakash praised the PM for out-of-the-box thinking but declared that execution of his plans needed a different type of bureaucracy.
 
“Since Mr Modi is given to questioning the efficacy of existing practices, he could look at the possibility of opening the doors of government to management specialists hired specifically to manage national programmes. This can happen if he can end the stuffiness of the Indian bureaucracy, which has the reputation