New Year reflection and planning feel apt this year, as we complete 35 years of the 1991 reforms. Those reforms were substantial but incomplete; China’s per-capita GDP — the same as India’s in 1991 — is now five times higher. This year’s agenda is bigger and bolder, but five revisions to our thinking about entrepreneurship are needed for massive non-farm job creation. The West is just catching up with our zero-sum economic ideology from 1956, 1968 and 1976. AdvertisementOf the five revisions needed to our thinking about entrepreneurship, the first is “to get rich is glorious”.

Source: Indian Express January 12, 2026 12:36 UTC