The Economist features a tiger on its cover, but it’s not the diminishing species that concerns the periodical. “What is holding India back?” says India’s failure to achieve its economic potential is due to an inability to reform a “bloated” civil service: “...India’s 10m-strong civil service is the size of a small country, and its unreformed public sector is a huge barrier to two things a growing population needs... a faster rate of sustainable growth” and spreading “the fruits of a growing economy to India’s poor”. An accompanying article on the IAS says the bureacracy veers between service and self service. The Economist concludes: “The tiger may be the animal most Indians associate with their private sector; but a more apt symbol is the peepul tree... if the next government again flunks reform,” that peepul could be “smothered”.

While Hillary Clinton’s resurrection is celebrated for its true grit by everyone, the most interesting and provocative story is Tina Brown’s Hillary and the invisible women” in Newsweek. The former editor of The New Yorker, joins Clinton’s campaign in Texas and tries to understand why women love the woman everyone else — including the media— love to hate. The clue lies in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: “if you are 50 and female, the novel that’s being written on your forehead every day is “Invisible Woman”. All over the country there are vigorous, independent, self-liberated boomer women” who for all their achievements, “still find themselves steadfastly dissed and ignored...for their sake alone, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should not give up the fight.”