@02ecde16 Today there's also this obituary in the Financial Times.
MS Swaminathan, architect of India’s green revolution, 1925-2023 - https://on.ft.com/45iwN8i 

 @ad951bfd @731c2efc Thank you! (Wouldn't have found that link!) 
Over here, the roughly equivalent LGA only hopes "to influence" national government. So, for me, KL having status to negotiate feels quite different.
Since it's a quiet start to the day, I'm hoping to find a few more readable nuggets at 
https://decentralization.net/ 

 @ad951bfd @731c2efc Do you happen to have a link to illustrate the autonomy of local government in Denmark?? Some of us in the UK have a faint grasp of structures in France and Germany, but Danish local government has never come into focus for me. (Sorry.)