Penny-wise is no wise man's option
Managing allocations for defence is a difficult process at the best of times because the output of defence expenditure is not easily quantifiable.
A less pricey, more efficient way
The installed capacity of India has reached nearly 100,000 MW by 2001, impressive by world standards. However, our per-capita capacity of 1 KW for ten persons is low.
A partial survey
A survey of the Indian economy in year 2000-01 without a separate chapter on the e-economy, the information, communications and entertainment sectors, software exports and the data-processing boom, is at best a partial survey.
A separate reality
If fiction often bears an uncomfortable approximation to reality, it could well be because fiction writers are less constrained in depicting the world around them than those who pontificate on their sacred duty to uncover the truth.