A hopeful narrative of India's potential

This is yet another book riding on the advances the Indian economy made after economic liberalisation and the accelerated growth of recent years.

- V KUMARASWAMY

Most books like this extend the trend far into the future, based on the thin evidence of the past two or three years. This book, however, seeks to identify several socio-economic changes that provide the rationale for such optimistic projections.

The authors believe that India has changed the master narrative -- the shared stories of success that transform the belief and behaviours of people in the past two decades. From fear, failure and frustration of the first four or five decades after independence, India achieved a turnaround after 1991. While the performance of the Nifty 50, Chandrayaan's success, achievements in chess, and the dramatic tunnel rescue in Uttarakhand are manifestations of this progress, the trinity of Jan Dhan accounts, Aadhaar, and mobile phones, collectively known as JAM, and Unified Payments Interface form the backbone, with greater financial inclusion, rising education, and accelerated infrastructure development leading to paradigm shifts.