As with most countries and societies reform is the hardest to come about even where most needed.
India is perhaps the best case in point. Only harder than most.
1991 was a watershed year that opened up the country to the larger world, unleashed inborn existing energy and clearly showed India's vast potential could/can be fulfilled.
The country moved forward against all the odds stacked up against itself from within. Remarkably well it may be said without undue praise.
Still there is, probably there will always be, an unchanged and unchangeable India. An India that only takes so much, allows so little of this or that to, at the end of the day, proceed at its own chosen pace.
Endemic corruption, political and economic gridlock, grinding poverty, systemic bottlenecks are all part and parcel of what makes India, India.
There are many ways to look at it.
The glass is half-empty. Or maybe the glass is half-full.
But we may agree the glass is definitely not empty any more.
This is no minor achievement for a country that awes, stuns, dazzles, stinks, repels, awakens, depresses, basically putting all senses to the test at the same time.
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