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Indians wryly admit that 'India grows at night.

But that is only half the saying: the full expression is: 'India grows at night... when the government sleeps, suggesting that the nation may be rising despite the state. India's is a tale of private success and public failure. Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life.

But how could a nation become one of the world's fastest-growing economies when it's governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn't it be wonderful if India also grew during the day-in other words, if public policy supported private enterprise?

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What India needs. Gurcharan Das says, is a strong. liberal state. Such a state would have the authority to take quick, deci…

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