My close encounter with bureaucracy began in late 2009, when I was invited onto the Rural Development working committee of the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission. It paused on 1st November last year. A few weeks before that, partner remarked that I had started to sound too much like the Government and needed a detox from “the System”. A Government retreat in the last week of October settled it: where I watched the key issues discussed in huddle and mediocre ideas occupied mainstage.
