Tata Sons Executive Director R Gopalakrishnan recalled a friend who, after staying in the US for decades, had invested in a plant in India. I never read Indian newspapers, he told Gopalakrishnan. Why, Gopalakrishnan asked, since he should be reading more of them now that he was living here. Having lived here, the friend told him, he realised the papers were either alarmist or they exaggerated India’s successes.