Letter to BS: India's industrial progress is hindered by multiple factors

India remains a corrupt country, the claims of the Narendra Modi government notwithstanding

Apropos Anita Inder Singh's article “Why India lags behind China” (October 16), there are some other pressing reasons that have hindered India’s industrial progress vis-à-vis China. True that the style of governance between authoritarian and democratic ones does not matter, but the type of democracy does. India is a flawed democracy in which the ruling party and the Opposition see each other as adversaries rather than as collaborators in achieving national goals. This has led to the “versus complex”— what the government does must be opposed and obstructed. A partisan outlook has replaced judging issues on their merit. These ongoing