Is India’s democracy its greatest strength — or its biggest roadblock to reform?
What will shape the country’s next 30 years?
In this in-depth episode of Booked, Rajdeep Sardesai and Siddharth Zarabi sit down with former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian and political economist Devesh Kapur to discuss their new book, A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey.
From India being a “precocious democracy” to why manufacturing never became its growth engine, the conversation dives deep into the country’s most critical structural challenges:
• How democracy both enables and slows reform
• The evolving North–South divide and migration pressures
• Why India’s structural transformation remains incomplete
• Low private sector investment in R&D
• The risks and opportunities shaping the next 30 years of India’s journey
This is not about optimism or pessimism.
It’s about asking the hard questions India can no longer avoid.
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