For all of India's many and weighty advantages and its present trajectory, a fatal stall cannot be ruled out.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, has India gone from the inherent virtue of socialism as the equal sharing of miseries to the inherent vice of capitalism as the unequal sharing of blessings?
It has the world's largest pool of poor, sick, starving and illiterate. Access to safe water and sanitation remains a pipe dream for most, disease is endemic, and life is nasty, brutish and short for far too many.