Isn’t It Rich?
Patrick French on the Remarkable-If Uneven-Transformation of India
India is changing so rapidly and dramatically that it’s becoming a paradigm of its own, Patrick French told a large crowd at the RAND Corporation. His new book, India: A Portrait, is billed as “an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people,” and his answer to the question, “Is India rich or poor?” lived up to that billing, as he mixed portraits of some of the faces of the new India with historical anecdotes and analysis.
According to French, over the past few decades, Westerners have clung to three assumptions about India: …
