Reimagining India's Economy: The Road to a More Equitable Society

Independent India is at a turning point. Will it turn off the path to the destinyit set out towards at the midnight hour of 15th August 1947? Will it providepoorna swaraj-full freedom (political, social, and economic)-for all itscitizens? Or will it be a nation in which some citizens are more equal thanothers: the rich more equal than the poor; Hindus more equal than Muslims;upper castes more equal than lower castes?The making and remaking of a nation is a journey towards a shared vision.We must discover who we are and agree on who we want to be. The Indianeconomy is in a crisis. The people know it is, but its leaders deny it. Likeostriches, they try to bury their heads in sands of statistics hoping the stormwill pass. They believe more GDP will produce good lives for citizens andtry to convince them that India is on the right path because the size of itseconomy is growing faster and becoming larger than that of other nations.Reimagining India's Economy is a story of the evolution of the Indian economyafter 1947. It provides ideas for leaders of change. It is a book to provokereflection and learning; with some poetry, philosophy, and common senseto guide public policy rather than statistics, data analysis, and artificialintelligence.