Mumbai, Feb. 9 -- The average Indian student who starts an undergraduate course in economics in the next academic session would have been born after 2001. This is a decade after India adopted economic reforms, which drastically changed the economic landscape, both in material and intellectual terms. Economies and societies change with time. Not all changes are for the good. Post-reform India has brought a new set of challenges. But one can say with some degree of confidence that despite problems like systemic agrarian distress, lack of remunerative jobs, and an impending day of reckoning on the ecological front, postreform India is better than the nation we had before 1991 at least in material terms....