This is Sanjaya Baru's farewell column. He joins FICCI as Secretary-General.
As India celebrates 70 years of freedom from colonial rule it is sobering to recall that in the span of these seven decades several Asian nations that looked up to India at its birth are today looking behind, watching a trailing India trying to catch up. With the exception of a few laggards mainly in South Asia most other Asian nations have performed better than India on most development indicators. Nowhere is this contrast sharper than in East and Southeast Asia. . .
