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Two and a half years after the inauguration of the government of the aam admi, there are different analyses of the record of the Manmohan Singh government. If the golden years of economic reform were 1991-93, when the first bold steps were taken to liberalise trade and dismantle controls then Manmohan Singh in 2006 seems a far more cautious reformer with second generation reforms struggling along in fits and starts. At the half way mark of the government by India's most famous blue turban, the question can be asked , why has the rhetoric of reforms, the mindset of reforms, indeed the momentum of reforms become so weak? The normative value of reformers in India has always been huge. What, after all, were the great religious movements of Buddhism and Jainism but reform movements within a Hindu tradition rotting under caste abuse? The bhakti movements of the 14th century....