India’s Policy Deficit: As I Look At It

Policies, be they administrative, economic, educational, scientific, social or regarding anything else, are necessarily grounded in some ideology; relating to the conception of an ideal man, an ideal economy, an ideal education system, an ideal society, an ideal scientific performance and so on. These ideals vary from time to time, from place to place and perhaps from context to context. He says that because of the reason that our intellect is created and directed by our will to serve our purpose and not to seek for any impersonal truth, we often design our own personal truth that suits ourselves, irrespective of our awareness of it, often without any doubt whatsoever to our sincerity or honesty in upholding them. In this paper the author gives his own perspective of India's policy deficit.