Political outsourcing - Daily News & Analysis

One of our widely acknowledged failings as Indians is a general reluctance — or, worse, an incapacity — to leverage our exceptional skills and take them to the global marketplace, where there’s an enormous demand for the kind of things we particularly excel at.

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I don’t mean such skills as writing software code or offering other outsourced services. The big opportunities that we’re passing up are on the high-stakes stage of partisan politics and over-the-top brinkmanship — where our political leaders’ consummate skills remain inaccessible to people from other countries where they’re desperately needed. Two instances are illustrative. In Australia, the recent general elections produced a hung parliament, but even two weeks after the results came in, the government formation process remains deadlocked. That’s because the two principal political formations, unused to the nuances of forming coalition governments, have failed to win over the support of marginal parties or independent MPs.

Political outsourcing - Daily News & Analysis