India is only on the starting block.

Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption

Shifting to a PPP model could repeat the errors of the past

India still has to go a long way to implement reforms in various sectors.

West Bengal was the second-most industrialised state in terms of value added and first in terms of number of factories and employment even in the mid-1960s. With a severe and long process of deindustrialisation, it lost its primacy.