I hope our leaders, on both the left and the right, understand what Ashutosh Tiwari is saying in 'Love the neighbours' (Strictly Business, #328). It's time to face the reality that subsistence farming is not going to solve the problems of the country. Businessmen must be given a chance to create employment-generating opportunities. That's what India and China are doing. Netas must stop looking at businessmen as a source of income, and businessmen should stop paying off the netas to get things done. The result of this unholy alliance is that both sides come across as incompetent hacks. I hope with all the changes going on in the country, these two groups will learn from their contemporaries in the neighbourhood and excel in what they do, as opposed to scratching each other's backs.

Anup Pathak,
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