NEW DELHI, June 14 -- In May 2025, it was announced that India has already crossed the $4 trillion GDP mark and is currently the world's fourth largest economy, based on nominal GDP. In 2014, when Narandra Modi became the Prime Minister of India, India's GDP was just about $2 trillion. It was also among the 'Fragile-Five' economies of the world as per a Morgan Stanley report. Over the next one decade, India's transformation and quantum leap to become the fourth largest, and one of the most resilient, economies of the world, has been nothing less than a phoenix-like rise from ashes.

This is especially true when witnessed against the backdrop of severe disruptions that India, like many others, faced due to covid pandemic, and Ukraine-Russi...