The year the ‘Good Days’ never came. That could be the headline for this column which appears at the end of 2015. Because, if 2014 was the honeymoon year for the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, this should have been the year that all the promises made became real. But did they? And if they did, for whom did they exactly?

Nothing beats the current onslaught against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, seen here at a Chennai flood relief function on Sunday. Jaitley is currently embroiled in the DDCA corruption controversy. Pic/PTI