Indian State

“The interesting paradox was that the administrative arm was still colonial in nature because the structure was still that way, but we added more demands from the state. So the state became more coercive, and we spread the state too thin, trying to do everythin…”

“If you are going to take them and get them to run PSUs, they'll obviously not be able to spend energy time thinking on healthcare, education, judiciary, where we have a big problem, law and order in general. So all the developmental arms of the Indian state ar…”

“So we have a term for this in this book called Omni absent, right? We call the state as In the sense that state is doing what it shouldn't be doing, but it is not doing what it should be doing”