the problem can be summed up thus : Indian administration (in this case the Indian Foreign Service)continues to flounder, their mistakes continuously glossed over with the politicians and babus ensuring they protect each other in the face of increasingly visible gaffes committed. Be it in the wording of Bills passed by the Parliament, foreign policy statements, behaviuor of the politicians, nothing comes under the public scrutiny and no official seem to be answerable to the public for their decisions regardless of the effect it has on the country, its citizens or their future. The media highlights such things for a few days and then everyhting is consigned to the dust-bin of memories. Had it been any other country, especially one that is in the forefron tof the world and aspiring for a security council seat, such acts/ decisions would have been publicly debated. I am referring to the govt decision in the nepal monarch issue. Why does not the foreign secy along with the minister be made responsible. do we get to question the nepal desk of the foreign ministry. i am sure very few journalists also know the name of the concerned official, forget the hapless general public.
