Where did we go wrong?

It is a time for deep thinking about what has gone wrong in
India. Here are a few excellent takes:

• href="http://www.livemint.com/2012/01/08222222/THE-UPA-AND-ITS-1970s-MINDSET.html?atype=tp">Anil
  Padmanabhan in the Mint.
  
  
• Ila Patnaik in the href="http://openlib.org/home/ila/MEDIA/2011/india_story.html">Indian
  Express and in the href="http://openlib.org/home/ila/MEDIA/2011/welfare_fe.html">Financial
  Express. Also see href="http://openlib.org/home/ila/MEDIA/2011/liberalisation.html">Liberalisation
  2.0 by her.
  
  
• href="http://business-standard.com/india/news/qa-pratap-bhanu-mehta-president-centre-for-policy-research/460831/">Pratap
  Bhanu Mehta in the Business Standard.
  

As we watch many train wrecks in India unfold in slow motion,
Timothy
W. Ryback in the New York Times reminds us about that
ineffable substance of the human soul ... that shapes individual
decisions and ultimately determines the course of actions, both
large and small, that constitute the chain of events we know as
history.