It is the best of the world, it is the worst of the world

India is a conutry of paradoxes. I came acoross this para in World Bank Report (2006) about India. This resonates with my experience of India.

The top students from the Indian Institutes of Technology are not just globally competitive, they have set the global standard. Yet, many, if not most, children in India finish government primary schools incapable of simple arithmetic. While there is increasing "medical tourism," where people travel to India for high-quality, low-cost medical treatments—the typical Primary Health Center doctor in Delhi is less competent than doctors in Tanzania. India’s Supreme Court is justly world renowned, but local courts are backlogged and ineffective and local police are frequently a miasma of corruption and brutality. Similarly, in economic performance, while parts of urban India compete for business in software engineering and biomedical research, parts of rural India have poverty rates comparable to borderline "failed states," such as Haiti and Nigeria, and have child malnutrition rates higher than any country in the world.

I think we need some innovative corporate strategies and political policies to have a long term sustainable inclusive growth...