Why are we like this only?

If modern India had a corporate slogan, it would be – Benchmarking Globally, Tolerating Locally. Our GDP growth is benchmarked against China, digital payments compared to Scandinavia, and startup ecosystems pitched against Silicon Valley. Boardrooms are filled with slides, OECD tables, McKinsey quadrants, and World Bank indices, assembled to demonstrate how viksit we have become. We confidently echo terms: world-class, five trillion dollars, ten trillion to follow.

Yet, step out of corporate boardrooms and the same executives walk past broken pavements and walls stippled with paan stains without breaking stride.

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