NEW DELHI, Jan. 1 -- Welcome to the new year. Whether 2019 ends up being different from 2018 is entirely up to us. We could have more of the same on all fronts, or we could have something entirely different - and since this is a continuum we could keep constant those things we liked about 2018, and change for the better those that we didn't.
It's going to be a big year for India on many fronts. Sometime in the course of the year, the country's economy will become the fifth largest in the world - overtaking, and aptly so, the UK's. Even those usually not given to such things are likely to experience a frisson of nationalistic pride at the country's economy overtaking that of its one-time colonial mistress, but the more important thing is wh...