Missing the wood for the trees: Covid exposes fault lines in India’s $5 trillion economy dream

Covid’s second wave is raging and along with being a human tragedy, is taking a huge toll on brand India. For the last two decades, India has been celebrated as one of the promising growing economic powers of the world. As an economic growth engine of Asia, the country was considered to be a manufacturing hotspot, one that could replicate the success of China and South Korea. From his early days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an ardent