Two ideas of India
A fortuitous coincidence caused me to hear Amartya Sen talk about what he believed was wrong with the Indian development model in the same week that Narendra Modi expounded his economic ideas before students of Delhi University. And, it was for me as if I had accidentally come upon a two-sided mirror that reflected two completely opposite images of India. The image that Dr. Sen conjured up at the Kolkata Literary Festival was bleak, old, sad and hopeless. The one that Gujarat's Chief Minister conjured up for the gathering of students was vibrant with hope, dreams and possibilities.