Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 76 today and the occasion also roughly coincides with his completion of 12 years in office. Over this period, the Indian economy has morphed from a vulnerable state into a global powerhouse -- the fourth-largest economy and also consistently the fastest growing major economy.
Twelve years after Modi entered the Prime Minister’s Office, India surely has a far bigger and more efficient economy, a vastly expanded infrastructure network and a digital state that would have seemed improbable in 2014. What makes this transformation all the more remarkable is that it has happened through some of the biggest economic disruptions in decades, from Covid to the Ukraine war and now the Iran conflict and tariff shocks.
