On 14-Apr-08, at 5:31 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
I read it three years ago, and wrote a couple of paras on it in an
old piece
I wrote for WSJ [1]. From what I remember, the book does an
excellent job of
demonstrating how government works, with much first-person narrative
of the
problems Shourie had in making it function when he was actually a
minister.
Thankfully, this is not universally true.
I have first hand experience of government PPP* projects that on the
whole move fairly rapidly, despite the attendant kinks and blockades.
There is usually a strong willed bureaucrat behind the scenes** making
this possible.
* PPP == Public-Private Partnership
** ie, not in the news, but very much visible to the parties working
on the project
