<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Darshan Singh"><item><title>The long road to Aatmanirbhar Bharat</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-long-road-to-aatmanirbhar-bharat/</link><pubDate>August 17, 2020, 6:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/op1-3.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>India needs a new commercial cadre that will look after the country’s external commercial interests, realising fully well that our foreign policy and military posture are dictated by our internal economic base and also overseas economic interests.</excerpt></item><item><title>Babudom needs an overhaul if self-reliance is to succeed</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/babudom-needs-an-overhaul-if-self-reliance-is-to-succeed/</link><pubDate>July 14, 2020, 5:29 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pm1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The British built a system to ‘administer’ and ‘regulate’ a colony, and we are continuing that. We must change. Now is the time to instead reorient our bureaucracy towards ‘facilitation’.
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