Today’s Hindustan Times has an a page one anchor describing what a Dutch diplomat has to say about the capital of the nation:
Turn to the Edit Page, and the former Union Minister of Urban Development Jagmohan, an example of the difference between the well-meaning and the populist, puts forward the reasons behind this mess:
The response of the power wielders to this plea was a sudden change in my portfolio.
Politics is a short run affair; all that matters is the next election. It didn’t matter to Jagmohan, he lost his seat. Why worry about the long run? John Maynard Keynes said, “In the long run, we’re all dead.” Right. But others will live and with the shrinking time frame of long-run implications we are almost seeing the results live. Delhi is fast transforming into the gutter, once a river, which divides the city into two. Delhi Metro rail isn’t the saving grace.