It's not a diary, it's a book ;)
although an awful lot of people have been enthused by the politicians who promote India as a place to do business, I've read far too much about the unresovable problems associated with Indian bureaucracy, intransigence, indifference and corruption to believe the coutnry could ever truly leap forward as China has done.
You might say that means they have dodged the bullet of the real problems china has caused for itself (as you know, I predict it will implode within a decade), but India has chosen its own path to hell and is pursuing it vigorously. keep to the Fen Causeway
India's democracy is by no stretch of the imagination perfect, but it does function, and it can be lead to truly radical change on occasion. Witness Kerala, which was taken over by communists via the ballot box, who then ran an effectively socialist government for over ten years. They pushed through effective educational reform, tax reform, and land reform.
Horrible for entrenched business elites, but democratic nonetheless, and thus an example the business elites would rather ignore.
This kind of action is not possible in all places, but the very existence of democratic institutions in a country with degrees of family and tribal social organization unknown in the west, and thus with vast potential for coherent democratic agitation from the civil sphere, means that elites can't just push people around at will.
