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A radical reset for the Indian economy

Reset, thus, is not much of a reset as much as setting of the lines of sound policies for the govt to adopt, once the extravagant bits are edited out

Regaining India’s Economic Legacy
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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee
He gets the history right, the analysis spot-on, the target just about right but insists on a plan of action to achieve it that is a gamble even bigger than demonetisation. 

Subramanian Swamy argues the Indian economy needs to grow close to 10 per cent per annum for at least a decade to make a dent on poverty, on unemployment and reach the league of middle -income economies. 

To achieve this massive growth rate, Mr Swamy offers a menu of options that will upend the Indian economic administration and much else, irrevocably. It will also push the economy on a somewhat mercantile