The tagline of the rap song "Apna time aayega" (My time will come) from the recent Hindi film, The Gully Boys, could equally have been the refrain of India itself for many decades. A left-handed compliment is that India has for long been a country with great potential — and continues to be so.
We have, of course, moved far from the days of dire predictions of chaos, of a break-up, of ship-to-lip foreign foodgrains to stave off starvation, from the days of sending gold out to repay our debts. . .
