State Under Stress

APRESIDENT who calls up an individual minister to discuss a cabinet decision that the minister is widely known to have opposed. An Election Commission that arrogates to itself the power to pass scathing remarks on government decisions and to offer what the government was constrained to call gratuitous advice to the judiciary regarding what points of putative governmental misconduct it should apply its mind to while hearing a petition against the government. A high court that transfers, almost casually, the executive