The fact that a country of more than a billion people %u2014 with some bright people %u2014 couldn%u2019t find anyone to be its President is a telling shame on the manner in which our politics is run,
Pratibha Patil is only symptomatic of the malaise that afflicts our democracy. She is not the problem per se. The problem is our own mental and physical lethargy, our tolerance levels and our reluctance to shake the system by its bootstraps. In effect, we the people now live in an India that is by us, of us, but rarely for us.
