India’s public spaces are a mess mainly because we as citizens don’t value civic sense. Airports, gated residences, companies are world-class. But city streets and air are hazards
If modern India had a corporate slogan, it would be – Benchmarking Globally, Tolerating Locally. Our GDP growth is benchmarked against China, digital payments compared to Scandinavia, and startup ecosystems pitched against Silicon Valley. Boardrooms are filled with slides, OECD tables, McKinsey quadrants, and World Bank indices, assembled to demonstrate how viksit we have become. We confidently echo terms: world-class, five trillion dollars, ten trillion to follow.