India, Jan. 27 -- Everyone talks about the resource curse. Nations that sit on a mountain of natural resources grapple with corruption, exploitation, and the inability to climb up the global value chain. Hence, their incomes are limited, and they remain poor, even as their leaders and elite classes become richer. In recent times, however, as is exemplified by China and India in some sectors, a stranglehold over resources and inputs can become a major driver for growth, and derail rival and competing economies. China has done this to an extent with America, as also with India in some sectors. India has achieved this, either consciously or by default, against Bangladesh. In both the cases, the supply of inputs for industries that were cruci...