India as restrained elephant

A balanced narrative presents alternative points of view via 708 references - or nearly three per page

Caged Tiger: How too much Government is Holding Indians Back

Author: Subhashish Bhadra

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages: 301

Price: Rs 799

A tiger locked in a cage is constrained by the external world. India’s constraints are primarily domestic and self-imposed to moderate the pace of redistribution of social and economic power. The metaphor of an elephant, held captive by the simple artifice of an emotional and physical bond with its keepers, its brute power disciplined by just a notional rope or chain looped around a stump in the ground, seems more readily applicable.

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