The Elephant Paradigm – Gurcharan Das – Review
The intent of the title ‘Elephant Paradigm’ is to convey the idea that India possesses immense strength but can only move in a slow pace, comparing with the attributes of a Chinese Tiger, our nation is unlikely to run at fast pace to reach economic superiority. Being the only nation wherein democracy preceded capitalism, we lost over 4 decades being immersed in socialistic policies. GD points out that its clear that communism or socialism is now an established failure model and capitalism with all it’s flaws is the only one that improves the quality of life while pulling millions out of poverty. Some of the events are interesting to note, like in 1993, the seventy third amendment led to local elections being held for the first time across all Indian villages and municipalities. This resulted in three million legislators being elected out of which close to 1 million were women. Such a massive local democratic exercise is a record on a global front and it was believed that a lot ...