Years before Narendra Modi won this month’s election that now allows him to become India’s next leader, the former tea-stall worker asked this question on behalf of the world’s second most-populous nation:
“It is often said that India does not dream big and that is the root cause of all our problems. Why can’t we dream like China, Europe or America?”
Note how Mr. Modi compares India to other continental powers. This reveals just how much today’s 1.25 billion Indians, who are digitally hitched to the global flow of ideas, have adopted new views of their capacity for progress ”“ not only for India but for themselves.