Global perception of India is unequal and fragmented: Claude Smadja

To become an alternative to China, India has to address a big challenge -which is that the industrial base of India is too narrow, he said

He has been following the India story for decades as the former managing director of the World Economic Forum. CLAUDE SMADJA, chairman of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory, who will be in India in the first week of June to host the third India Global Innovation Connect in Bengaluru, discusses the country’s policies and challenges ahead in a video interview with Surajeet Das Gupta. Edited excerpts:

Has India done enough to leverage the China Plus One strategy, or have countries like Vietnam done far better?

To become an alternative to China, India has to address a big challenge: the industrial base