Two visions of India – woolly and pragmatic
It is a fight between two absentee landlords over overlapping properties. They like observing their land from ivory towers, half the world away, through powerful telescopes. If we take the observation posts to be Harvard and Columbia, the land as the abstract cerebral landscape of the Indian economy and the powerful telescopes as the megawatt intellects of Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati, what do we get? Something of the altercation that is being played out under media glare.
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