I am still not convinced that Narendra Modi is the next best thing since sliced bread to have happened to India. But I am glad that the Congress was decisively beaten all over the country. As a political party, they needed precisely this. It was maddening to see them strutting about as if the top job is their birthright - especially in the face of the scandals and policy paralysis that has sent the country's economy to its very bottom. I had hoped that they would use this time to figure out what went wrong (if it wasn't already apparent!) and to set their house in order. But from what I have been reading, that is unlikely to happen. It's unfortunate that a political party that has been around for more than a century is so unwilling to reinvent itself.

Perhaps we Indians put too much faith in Jugaad. :-(