India Is Charting a Path to Become the Next Global Powerhouse

Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, speaks at the nation's Independence Day ceremony at Red Fort in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. After more than eight years in office, Modis personal standing towers over his political rivals even as the South Asian nation grapples with high inflation and unemployment and faced a catastrophic Covid-19 wave last summer. , Bloomberg

Wes Kosova, Bloomberg News

Jan 30, 2023

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to make India a developed nation. How soon can a country once synonymous with red tape become a $10 trillion economy?

Bloomberg senior editor Kai Schultz and reporter Vrishti Beniwal join this episode from New Delhi for a look at India’s rapid growth, and its role as a pragmatic player in the global economy.

And Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, talks about Modi’s successes, and stumbles, as he navigates India’s complex political and religious cross-currents.

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