Barun Roy: Wake up, Delhi

ASIA FILE

While West Bengal's chief minister takes a cavalier stand against the growing unrest in the state's northern hills, South Korea's president has apologised to his people over a crisis that came close to toppling his government. I bring these two apparently unrelated events together to emphasise a simple-but-often-ignored truth of public policy: arrogance breeds all the problems, modesty solves them.

South Korea's crisis stemmed from an unlikely cause