If we accept that aspiration drives growth, higher aspiration should drive faster progress
Rahul Gandhi was perhaps on to something when he said some time back that poverty is a state of mind. What he did not elaborate on was how this state of mind has become the guiding principle in Indian political discourse. Politicians love poverty, since it gives them endless opportunities to tax everybody and everything and focus on pork-barrel schemes to “alleviate” this condition.
(This story appears in the 18 October, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)