Indian Economy

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CHANGES IN ‘CHANGES’

So the answer to the question, ‘Could Nothing Be Done?’ is ‘Yes, a great deal.’ What, or how much of that would actually be realised depends on a host of factors such as the shape of the polity in the decades ahead, historical forces, societal movements, effects of multiculturalism, and religious permissibilities. What could, however, be said straightaway—without resorting to clairvoyance—is that there will be changes, massive, fast and esoteric. Yet, India being what it is, there will also be changes in many of those changes themselves. The second are essentially ‘phoren’ in origin, the first stem from the soil and soul of India.

The shape of things to come is already in evidence. Some 20 years ago India was seen by ...