Future tense

With reference to the editorial, “Clarity from data (Business Line, January 16), it is a great relief to read that consumer inflation came down from 11.16 per cent to 9.87 per cent. But how far will these figures hold in light of persisting political instability, laxity in the pursuit of economic policies, declining industrial production and uncertainty of extension of adequate support for agriculture?

T. V. Gopalakrishnan

(This letter appeared in Business line dated 17/01/14).