Coming full circle on India

Just over two decades ago, Mark Tully found India stuck preponderantly at a semicolon. Various efforts at eradicating poverty had fallen far short of target. The licence-permit raj still throttled enterprise. Yet, the lust for a better after-life remained a potent personal propellant in the world’s most populous democracy. Such a tangle inspired Tully, then chief of BBC’s Delhi bureau to a memorable metaphor: “They (the Western world and the Indian elite) want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops.”

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