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Hafta letters: State of the nation, divisive speeches, what Mamata is up to

Hi Hafta team, on the topic of elections, I am curious if there is any intellectual capacity or curiousity for alternate models either in the Indian context or elsewhere with the same five-year term or less governments.  Clearly, it seems to me that short termism in politics is not really working in the favour of the common public, ie it's giving us greedy politicians, short-term thinking in policy making, and building institutions and services that serve the public long-term are not on the agenda of any political party. 

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