The craft of graft

August 13, 2012 12:00

Everything in excess is opposed to nature, Hippocrates famously said. About a century later, Aristotle '" who held the ancient Greek physician in enormous regard '" developed the theory of the golden mean, positing there was virtue in treading the middle path between two extremes, a way of life that enables people to live according to their nature. Should we give Shivpal Yadav, the beleaguered Uttar Pradesh Minister for Public Works, the benefit of the doubt?

Read the editorial on the Hindu.

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