Edited sentence: 30 years of experience in Indian public service, policy-making, governance and politics.Has been associated with several projects in India's education sector, which is one of the world's most overregulated and underperforming.In 2009, removed as chairman of the Congress Party's media department for attacking Nitish Kumar of the JD(U), whom the Congress was trying to woo, for his lack of "secular credentials".Makes public statements that reveal a profoundly limited acquaintance with the historical practices of successful industrialised economies