Just finish your drafts, read your judgments, make your notes, and try to help your peers, juniors & people who genuinely need it. Stop theorizing. You knew what you were getting into. No point keep harping about what privilege other enjoy. It won't increase urs or reduce theirs.
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The NFSA, Right to Info Act, Forest Rights Act etc were laws that Dr Manmohan Singh actively worked to pare down alongside his distaste for MNREGA. He was for unleashing the animal spirits of the economy. Others in the party brought to table this counter balance which eventually spin into moral decay. He did nothing to opposed the State's use of violence with impunity to create the hunting grounds for the animal spirits. In that he encouraged it. The framework for India's rise out of poverty at the cost of its marginals was set then.
It was in his era one saw the PMO operate without the PM's signatures on many files.
One can't blame his party people or bureaucracy friends for not talking the truth, but to see journalists write of him without rigour is more telling of the mediocrity in the elites of our profession than of the complex and rich legacy Manmohan Singh leaves behind. He had the guile, desire and determination to survive on top of a power structure. He did it using selective silence as a tool. Many successful elites follow the same method.
It seems to have been a rule-by-committee, him being the more humble and polite PM speaking policy in a neutral and technocratic language, with Chidambaram implementing the brutalities necessary for neoliberal capital accumulation.
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