The Great Indian Hype!

It is everywhere, the hype that India is rapidly climbing the ladder of global powers, and is poised to take the top rung in the not too distant future.
Sam Pitroda is not convinced -- in fact, he plays the contrary tune, telling that the hype is misplaced, that the country is a long way away from where it wants to be, that there are intrinsic problems that needs to be addressed before that ambition is realized.
Not quite the message you would expect to come out of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas jamboree -- but it is a timely one, and it pays to listen.
On a related note, minister for NRI affairs Vayalar Ravi, in conversation with Ramananda Sengupta, speaks at length on the PBD, and on what resurgent India has to offer the world.