"Over the past decade, India's consumer market has generated plenty of interest among investors, most notably the size of the population, prospects for rapid growth in real incomes and better provision of financial services," Shilan Shah, an India economist for Capital Economics, said in a recent note.
Post financial crisis, there's more skepticism. Economy seems to be in bad shape. Newspapers bring stories of scandals and scaling down more often than they bring stories of triumph or, as they once did, triumphalism. Sunrise sectors such as software and telecom have turned cautious, pessimistic and talk about hiring freeze and even lay-offs.
Late management guru CK Prahalad in his last public lecture presented a vision for an inclusive India, an India with a robust economy, technological vitality and vibrant modern leadership. He called this vision India@75.
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