New Delhi, April 9 -- India's recent growth trajectory shows its capacity to navigate uncertainties like a "Chakravyuh", where the key challenge lies not in entering a crisis but in exiting it in a calibrated manner without creating fresh imbalances, said Shaktikanta Das, principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Chakravyuh comes from the Mahabharata and refers to a multi-layered military formation that is easy to enter but difficult to exit, and is used as a metaphor here to describe the challenges of managing an economy under stress.

"It is like entering a Chakravyuh. In a crisis, you enter a Chakravyuh. Now, if you do not know the exit route, then the economy gets stuck, and you end up creating bigger problems than the one...