A long journey from the Bombay Club

In recent weeks, industrialists have felt emboldened to openly criticise the government for lack of reform. This is no minor development. In the past, no matter how bitterly they felt about government policy in private, industrialists and businessmen made public statements that were invariably emollient or, at best, anodyne for fear of upsetting thin-skinned ministers and politicians. It is now clear that India Inc is sufficiently exercised to protest about policy stasis in far stronger terms than it is instinctively programmed to do.

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