How India can be great again

Book review of Making India Great Again: Learning from our History

A title such as Making India Great Again… leads one to instinctively conclude that this book is likely to be another exclusionary war-cry like Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” or the Brexit crowd wanting to “Make England Great Again”. Far from it.

Take, for example, the authors’ critical analysis of one of the things stopping India from becoming “Great Again”: “A key component of any ecosystem favourable to business is the availability of low-priced real estate, whether on sale or for rent. India is one of the few countries where the real estate sector has seen an almost continuous rise