India in crisis-reform mode

The author’s central thesis is that every major change in modern India has come about in the wake of a crisis — due to accidents of history, not through decisive action or the exercise of vision or imagination. As evidence, he cites seven “ game changers”: the economic liberalisation of 1991; the Green Revolution of the sixties; bank nationalisation in 1969; Operation Flood in the seventies; the mid-day meal scheme of 1982 in Tamil Nadu (the first of its kind in India); the software revolution of the nineties; and the Right to Information Act of 2005.

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