The country's home ministry, which was once run by "the Iron Man of India", Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, will now be stewarded by Sushilkumar Shinde, perhaps the most powerless man to hold that portfolio, going by the collapse on his last day in office as the nation's minister for power of the entire grid in north, north-east and eastern India, which literally left over 19 states and 62 crore people in the dark on July 31. And this was an encore of the most pusillanimous and powerless kind since it happened just 24 hours after the collapse of the grid in northern India and the national capital of Delhi. In most countries, such a critical, calamitous collapse would have seen the government of...
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