Stretched on a rubberband

For the last year or so, all we have been hearing about is the 'India Story'. Anywhere you go, there are people singing praises of India, the world's emerging Economic Power! The rising Stock Market, 10% GDP growth, blah and blah...

But the voices talking about the lack of food in the country, the millions of people living in total misery and the lack of primary education in the rural areas are drowned out in the whole 'India Shining' hoopla.

We are stretching on a rubberband right now. Either we can snap it and shoot off forward or we're not strong enough to break it and then we're back where we started.