the writer could have made, but did not make, another point, that nehru's _political_ policies were responsible for the current success of india. the difference between india and pakistan today is not in their economic policies, which are actually much more alike today (and "american" i.e. non statist) than during the period of nehruvian socialism. the difference between india and pakistan is that india has remained democratic, despite upper middle class support for "getting trains to run on time", right-wing parties etc. much of this is to nehru's credit, the brief dictatorship imposed by his daughter notwithstanding.
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:21 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: > Vir Snghvi's contention that the old Nehruvian policies are > responsible for > the > current situation seems incorrect since much of the boom appears to be > a > result > of the reversal of some of those policies in the past two decades. And
