//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>187 : Much Ado about Nothing
Ronojoy Sen, Visiting Research Fellow at the ISAS
2 February 2011
The Cabinet reshuffle in India in January 2011 was a damp squib. The major portfolios ÔÇô finance, home, external affairs and defence ÔÇô were left untouched. There were only a few relatively minor changes in portfolios and promotions to a handful of ministers. Though a bigger reshuffle has been promised after the forthcoming budget session of the Parliament, the Government seems to have a lost an opportunity to make a statement of intent at a time when the country is besieged by scams, inflation and a Parliamentary deadlock.