Ep. 149: A life in Indian Politics
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Struggle for Power in India
I agree that there is an enormous lust for power in our society relative to many other societies. But sadly, we created an institutional mechanism and the incentive structure where honesty and survival in public office is increasingly incompatible. Institutional, you cannot be honest and you cannot survive. We are looking at only politics as the quest for power, not like Maharashtra, what's happening. I don't think there is another society that matches India in that lust for power without purpose. That's a larger cultural problem.
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