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1991 and 2014 – Inflexion Points in Indian Economy

A disclaimer to begin with is that whatever analogies given below are meant to effectively convey a point and have no negative or insulting or other undertones. Talking of the Indian economy and its underbelly I had written two blogs that can offer a foundation to my thoughts and the links are given below. http://rvasisht.blogspot.in/2014/11/congress-and-nehru-legacy.html http://rvasisht.blogspot.in/2014/12/crony-capitalism-indian-style.html It is often said that you must never wrestle with a pig.  It is you who gets dirty and the pig enjoys it.  Likewise here the government, the systems, the existing order, the polity, the administration, the establishment as it is called is to me the pig. We the citizens grapple with it and they enjoy it, we get dirty. Soon status quo is established and we citizens adjust to the new normal – being dirty, hungry, deprived, handcuffed is perfectly OK. We don’t think that anything otherwise is better. Our status quo turns into i...