Status Updates From India Unbound

Part 3 gets engrossing by the page: business houses, prominent people, repealed ACTs, and corporations (manufacturing, synthetics, technology and pharmaceuticals).

The author travels a lot - waiting list for flight tickets was new to me - airport must have felt like train station - should have taken a bus.

It gets increasingly opinionated, and problems with prospective solutions are bombarded.

"It is no wonder that Bombay’s vision was ignored. It was too practical and sensible—much like Bombay’s citizens."

Mistakes are expensive. Few have time to dilly dally.

"Instead of going back to my desk, I went out into the street and wandered aimlessly toward the harbor, feeling defeated."

La land de la wanderers.

Why not a fast tiger and an enduring elephant; like a quantum superposition.

"[...] Alexander reassured his men that they were doing all this for the sake of glory— [...] talk and write about them." Alexander was right.

"'Treat me . . . ' replied Puru." Puru was toiling for honour.

Macedonian Phalanxes, likely, had tough time taking on trumpeting elephants to deter futher inquisitions towards peninsular conquest.

Addictive.

Paying less heed to specific criticisms (which may be feelings rather than facts): Economics may not be an exact science, but to be formulated (especially the Macro kind) through centuries, from atrociously massive experiments of trials and errors, is dismal to the extent of being appalling.