Don't hope for a structural change

There is little hope that issues that affect the subjects will reach the rulers. Clearly, practical people should not expect the government to do anything other than minor tinkering

It has been an eventful last week. The founder of Café Coffee Day, V G Siddhartha, killed himself, leaving a note. The note confessed to large-scale but unspecified wrongdoing and a hint of harassment by the revenue authorities. His suicide note catalysed a chain of reactions that covered politics, entrepreneurship, risk-taking, and excessive debt. Most of those w­e­re tinged with strong emotion and hence misplaced. (For a more rational understanding, one must rememb­e­r that suicides are not always correlated to a physical st­ate but to a mental one. After all, many people who have lost virtually everything, including their loved