The problem with a recent Economist article, ‘India’s republic of uncles’, is the old habit of mistaking a clever metropolitan caricature for civilisational diagnosis.
‘Security situation demands capabilities. The hum of machinery must become a roar,’ NATO chief Mark Rutte said as he announced 5 new military contracts. Drones and ISR take the lead.
The Congress party’s abandonment of nationalism is the most intriguing aspect of its post-2014 politics. The real Congress was never a party of bleeding heart pacifists.
I have a simple, possibly naive, view that in a globalised world and economy, everybody needs everybody else. Not a fan of clubs and cliques. As far as India’s economic salience is concerned, it would be a fair assessment that we could have consistently grown at two percentage points higher over the last decade. That comes from wise, pragmatic, market friendly policies and a deeper embrace of structural reforms.
I have a simple, possibly naive, view that in a globalised world and economy, everybody needs everybody else. Not a fan of clubs and cliques. As far as India’s economic salience is concerned, it would be a fair assessment that we could have consistently grown at two percentage points higher over the last decade. That comes from wise, pragmatic, market friendly policies and a deeper embrace of structural reforms.