Educationist Dr Shashi K Pande on how he sees India, and how he would like to see it change.
'There appears to be in the Indian polity a link between being Single and being of prime ministerial timber. It is a trend, a preponderance -- not a statistical verity,' says Dr Shashi K Pande.
'With MPs bargaining like Shylock for their pet projects and with defections and desertions, the prime minister is besieged.'
Despite the vicissitudes of the policies of their governments, emotional bonds have already existed between the two countries, certainly from the Indian people's side.