In Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which began as a Hindu nationalist party, has increasingly campaigned and won on the basis of its ability to deliver public services and consistent economic growth. BJP candidates sought voter support by actually delivering on services promised and stood by their record at election time. The result was that

Yet although India and Pakistan are natural trading partners and culturally similar in multiple ways, their rivalry has helped to make South Asia one of the least integrated regions in the world. Continued tensions between them will prevent the Indian economy from achieving its full potential.

Devi is one beneficiary of a 1993 constitutional amendment aimed at confronting sexual discrimination by mandating that a third of all seats in the panchayat—the governing institution created to foster grassroots democracy—be reserved for women.

I’ve often scorned the guides for their Francophile and Japanese bias and their penchant for rewarding old-style Stockholm syndrome dining: pretentious arenas of exorbitance that turn diners into obsequious captives.

“India has historically been a strong society with a weak state,”

Japanese designer Kenya Hara of Muji

Today Virender Sehwag, a Jat from Delhi, is loved in Kolkata, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a native of Ranchi, has been embraced with great passion by residents of Chennai, and Sachin Tendulkar is revered throughout the nation in a way that knows no geographical or cultural boundaries.

The main thing is to create a regulatory and investment climate to support the right broad policy goals (access to transportation) rather than lock everyone into specific technologies. In a nutshell, we don’t know what the future winners are—and it would be foolish of government to attempt to determine it.

you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.