Treated photograph of workers unloading a statue of the Indian national emblem Ashoka Stambha outside North Block, in New Delhi, on Jan. 30, 2018. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)
India is inexplicable. Just a cursory look at a few indicators will prove how we suffer at the hands of perhaps the most inefficient state on earth. Too many infants die, many who survive are malnourished, we exploit women citizens, our forests are depleting, our rivers are drying, urban drains stink and overflow, undertrial prisoners languish without bail, minorities ghettoize in dread, and young people remain unemployed in their mo...