India, Jan. 9 -- MEDIA reports have highlighted the current precarious state of the country's police and civil administration. The pace of work in these two important pillars of the state apparatus has almost come to a standstill. There is a kind of invisible stagnation from the field level to the secretariat.
According to the reports, most of the officials and employees are spending their time on routine office work; but they are refraining from making long-term decisions or taking bold steps in the public interest. All eyes are now on the next elected government.
A deep psychological crisis is at work behind this stagnation. The rupture in the chain of command that occurred after the student uprising has not yet been fully repaired. The...