Every time India’s economy rises, someone parrots:
“But per capita GDP is low!”
India isn’t Monaco. It’s 1.4 billion people moving forward fast.
Per capita grew 9.2% in 2023 , faster than most of Europe.
You don’t measure a large nation with boutique metrics.
You measure it by momentum, scale, and strategic impact.
India isn’t catching up , it’s overtaking.
Deal with it.
When I was in business school, the idea of India overtaking Japan in GDP felt like a distant, almost audacious dream. Today, that milestone is no longer theoretical — we’ve become the world’s fourth largest economy.
It’s no small achievement. Japan has long been an economic colossus, with legendary productivity and resilience. That we’ve caught up is a testament to the ambition and ingenuity of millions of Indians — across sectors, generations, and geographies.
But as we celebrate, we must stay dissatisfied.
Because India’s next leap must be in per capita GDP, not just overtaking Germany…
For us to keep Rising, India needs sustained economic reforms — in governance, infrastructure, manufacturing, education, and capital access.
At twenty, you don’t get the life you deserve, you are just the product of the environment you were lucky or unlucky to have.
Then, as you get older, and enter your thirties, forties, and beyond, you notice how much agency you actually had on your life.
Maybe you moved abroad, learned another language, another culture, another mindset, and became an entirely different person.
Maybe you decided you had nothing to lose, and invested all your meager savings into the bet of a lifetime, and it worked out.
Maybe you changed all your habits, and realized that you could be much healthier, smarter, stronger than you thought, if you simply maintain a better diet, a better training, a better sleep, a better routine.
Maybe you fell in love, and realized that a great marriage was about so much more than physical attraction and intellectual compatibility: if you find yourself walking alongside with a kind, thoughtful, honest person who loves you back, you actually won the lottery.
Maybe you met some great people during your journey, shared with them parts of your journey, overcame difficult challenges together, finally understood the real meaning of “friendship,” and that some people are worth trusting and making sacrifices for.
Maybe you also had health issues, lost a few precious people that you loved, understood the fragility of life and the pain that comes with truly loving someone else, but also finally gained enough wisdom to appreciate the simple things in life, that are free and in abundance.
It’s a long journey. The best and the worst things will happen to you. You can choose to act like a victim, or you can choose to respect yourself and be more resilient, mentally stronger, overall better. In the end, you will look back, you will connect the dots, and it will all make sense, that you got exactly what you deserved.
We change jobs, employer finds someone else but does that mean we are easy to replace? Our uniqueness makes us different and we can never be replaceable. Rather, in reality nothing is replaceable. What is lost is lost forever. We are just adoptable to new.
It's not anxiety to be taken care of,its always reason behind anxiety to be taken care of and we realize most of them are the reasons affecting our values,ethics and beliefs.We can't deviate from our core values and fundamentals. And when we deviate,there's where anxiety kicks in
Being honest is becoming rare skill. Honesty with self can bring honesty with the world you're living. Dishonesty is ultimately going to affect person in long term.
You don’t need expensive tutors to learn.
You don’t need a fancy gym to work out.
You don’t need to be ready to get a job.
You don’t need a reason to be kind.
You don’t need alcohol to have fun.
You don’t need to be rich to invest.
You don’t need motivation to start.
Can ethics help you grow in current scenario? Can holding true spirit and customer benefit help you grow?
The answer is certainly yes and @zerodha always been a true example of contemporary time.
People struggle to grasp that:
- true friends are rare
- their parents did their best
- lack of clarity is lack of honesty
- lack of growth is lack of courage
- living abroad resets their identity
- gut health impacts mental health
- money is for buying time to truly live