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Jayalalitha Rules

14 February, 2008 by Amit Varma

A few posts ago, I’d written about the problem of how “our governments want to rule us, not serve us.” And today, Jayalalitha says:

We will rule Tamil Nadu again. We will even rule India.

Everybody’s forgotten the purpose of government, it would seem—even the voters.

(Link via email from Arun John.)

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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