Justice Markandey Katju writes: Indian politicians have no principles; unless the pursuit of power and pelf can be described as one. They keep changing their parties as regularly as the Italian adventurer Casanova would change his mistresses. The latest in this fold of trapeze artists is Bihar’s 72-year-old chief minister, Nitish Kumar. He reminds one of the French politician Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838) who kept switching sides all his life like a weathervane. He had the uncanny skill for sniffing which side the political wind was blowing.
