India Unbound by Gurcharan Das7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Also, there is a wonderful chapter on the details of the reforms that took place in 1991 and changed the face of India forever. He vividly paints the reasons for the failure of so called Indian socialism and how it choked the Indian economy for 40 years since her independence. ![]() ![]() And how the social, cultural precepts and the post-scripts of the times influenced the structure and the direction of the economy. ![]() Mr Gurcharan Das traces magnificently in easy prose the co-ordinates of Indian economy, from the British East India Company to the great Indian IT revolution. I have memories of Naipaulesque India: people claiming cultural and spiritual superiority over the rest of the world while the country was consumed by poverty, the so called Indian socialists making a life and political career out of refuting everything in the world, leftist professors poisoning the minds of vulnerable uni students that they can remove the stupidity of the human nature by chanting slogans, all such nonsense only ended up in making India borrow food and pawn its gold.Īlso on the other side of the coin, how within months of liberalization, our living rooms were flooded with Bold and the beautifuls, Remingtone steels, making every other aunt choose daquiri for lipstick shade How Pepsi became the holy water and eventually how India became the land that launched half a billion mobile phones. ![]()
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