Elephant turns into a cheetah: India is ready to take its rightful place

India is poised to reach its full potential and regain its rightful place at the top of the world order

It took India 60 years (from 1947 to 2007) to reach its first trillion dollars of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Graph 1 shows that the next trillion took 8 years (2007 to 2015), and India was at the edge of touching the $3 trillion mark on the eve of Covid.

As our leaders and experts have repeatedly told us, we should add $1 trillion every 3 to 4 years. Graph 2 shows that for most of history (from 1 AD to 1820), India and China dominated the world economy, so reverting to mean requires us to play with a straight