Kaushik Basu became a headline hogger recently, but for what he says are all the wrong reasons. Basu would not have imagined the firestorm of controversy that he created when making a seemingly-innocuous speech recently at a Washington DC think tank, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The next day, Indian papers were awash with reports from the Press Trust of India, quoting Basu saying that you were not likely to see any major reforms till the elections of 2014—after which "you would see a rush (of them)," propelling India to one of the fastest growing economies of the world.