Waiting for a political alphabet

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In an era when politics is becoming more about communication, a competent economic administrator like Manmohan Singh is bound to be lost in translation. His government will appear to be heading nowhere and Cabinet portfolios will appear to be managed by a motley group of glorified clerks and gentleman plunderers. There will be incoherence and fumbling on policy preparation. Worse, with real power concentrated in the hands of Sonia Gandhi, the Prime Minister will forever look east from his 7 Race Course Road residence. As for communication with the millions out there, outside the bandwidth of intrigue and machinations in Lutyens' Delhi, there'll be no concerted attempt, no astute vision and no understanding even of what needs to be communicated. In a nutshell, that is the sense one gets of the Congress preparation to face the electorate within the next fifteen months. Political imagination is in short supply.....