Monday, March 10

Age old wisdom

Foreign Policy has an interesting list of the world's ten oldest leaders and our Prime Minister ranks 9th on that list. But the real interesting part of the list is where the countries stand on the Failed State Index published by FP. Half of the countries including India are termed as 'borderline', while three are 'in danger' and two 'critical'. While few would want to disagree with what we say of old people, 'a person of wisdom is the person of years', it surely adds to my doubts about their ability as leaders.


2 comments:

Wavefunction said...

You should definitely read Chomsky's "Failed States". You may begin to look at that map differently then!

Manasi said...

Ashutosh: Sure will.