Amandeep Midha has written a critique of India’s fiscal policy and has skilfully entwined it with the country’s foreign policy. He accomplishes this even though the length of the article is such that it almost feels like two essays in one. Yet, it never bores the reader for a moment. The piece also asks an uncomfortable but necessary question: are we paralysed, or merely pretending to be pragmatic? Read on and grapple with the issues raised by him.












