A Thatcherite idea of India

The author also focuses on political opportunism by linking the economic concepts of scarcity and allocation with politics

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Although Dr Jalan’s analysis is cogent, it is somewhat rushed in places where the reader would have expected more detail, especially in sections covering the economy.

Ishaan Gera

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From Dependence to Self-reliance: Mapping India’s Rise as a Global Superpower

Author: Bimal Jalan

Publisher: Rupa

Pages: 184

Price: Rs 695

In the first few minutes of the movie Gladiator (2000), Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, tells his general Maximus, “There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile.” Marcus Aurelius is not talking about the empire but the Republic. The theme is repeated throughout the movie as his son, Commodus, tries to overrule the Senate, and Maximus and his coterie attempt to re-establish the Republic. In India’s

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