My Vision of India : 2047 ad

Venturing to offer anything like a vision of a country as gigantic, as diverse and complex, as contradictory and mixed-up as India, more than three decades into the future, is a risky endeavour. It might also seem pointless, if you go by what economists want to call ‘the myth of the long run.’ Let me remind you of what one of the greatest of them, Lord Keynes, said in a 1923 tract on monetary reform about training your sights too far ahead: ‘But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.’