The Lost Decade

Yesterday I was telling my friend that the decade from 2004-2014 was the most propsperous in Indian history since Shah Jahan. Of course, I was speaking in jest.
This morning I thought of checking on the data and see how much truth is there to this hunch.
You can see for youself what an opprotunity we lost in the last decade. The grey bars indicate the projected value that we would have achieved had we grown at the same rate.

I remember back in 2008-9, most big business leaders used to speak of India-China while speaking about their business growth and global expansion. Of course, India was far behind China even then. But at least we pretended to compete. But now no one speaks of India-China together any more. It seems we are relegated to a lower league.

Update: This is uncanny. I just asked ChatGPT this question "Which one is the most prosperous decade in indian history?"

Bye Bye Modi

People of Karnataka are too cultured, educated, sophisticated people to be swayed by these thugs.

South India has shown us the way how to get rid of hatred, toxicity and violence from public life.

It is up to the rest of the India to follow the lead and send these frauds back to Gujarat where they belong.