What it takes to be a superior nation than America in 2050

The other day as the nation was celebrating its 57th Republic Day, a newspaper headline the previous day kept playing on the mind. This was about India overtaking United States by the year 2050.

Watching two kids at the birthday party of the four-year-old, one could not help but think about where these kids, then in their late middle age, would be and what it would mean for them to be part of a country which would be more powerful than the United States of America.
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Soren and Sidhu: A study in contrast

It has been an extraordinary week for Indian politicians. Two MPs, including a Union Minister have been convicted for murder. This does not happen even in the most nascent of democracies. That it has happened in this country, with a history of 60 years of uninterrupted democracy, has mixed signals for all of us.

First the positive signal. That even Ministers and MPs, presumably with the backing of the powerful and the mighty, cannot escape the long arm of the law. It should be heartening for the families of the victims of these two influential men, that what they thought would not be possible, has happened.

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