India's unshackling problem

If you want a quick overview of India's failings, however, this book is a good starting point

Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival

Author: Ajay Chhibber and Salman Anees Soz

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages: 492

Price: Rs 699

For decades, India has been brandishing its credentials as a superpower in the making. In the 1980s, then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had talked about the dawn of the century and India turning a new page. Similar sentiments were relayed by Manmohan Singh, as the finance minister of the government that initiated India’s first-generation reforms in 1991. And later by Atal Bihari Vajpayee as he steered India into a new millennium with second-generation reforms. Many economists and authors have written extensively