There was a time in the past when India and China were similarly placed as far as the economy was concerned though China had a larger population to feed. China had a GDP per capita of $ 155, but 47 years later it is a turbocharged Rs 17 trillion super economy. They upped their game by controlling their population, formulating appropriate state policies and worked tremendously hard on their financials. In India, we came back from the brink of disaster under PV Narasimha Rao and began rising under the stewardship of Dr Manmohan Singh. In the past eleven years, we have been tottering as two gentlemen have come to the forefront on the national scene, who are more interested in winning elections and holding on to power. Consequences have followed. We have a net 45 billion USD trade surplus with them but that is a negligible 0.13% of their economy. We never scaled up. We became cybercoolies to the world providing cheap manpower. Today, if we are being treated like trash by Trump it is because, we are a footnote in their scheme of things.
