//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>17 : India at 60: Banking on the Demographic Dividend
Jayan Jose Thomas, Research Fellow at the ISAS
16 August 2007
As India celebrates its 60th year of independence, the mood in the air is a mix of excitement and despondency. A new generation of Indian professionals and entrepreneurs are basking in the glory of global recognition. At the same time, as floods caused havoc in many parts of the subcontinent over the past few weeks, millions of Indians are starving, displaced from their homes, and desperate for assistance.