Four reasons why Shashi Tharoor is wrong

December 21, 2011 16:41

Shashi Tharoor has set the cat among the pigeons by re-opening the old debate about whether we should abandon our Westminster-style parliamentary system and move to an American-style presidential system instead.

In a long and well-argued essay in Tehelka, he carefully identifies the maladies that plague our current dispensation, most vividly on view recently in the government's about-face on FDI in retail.

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