, Columnist
India Can’t Thrive Under Just a Banyan Tree
There’s no wider prosperity if conglomerates keep scratching in the same shallow soil.
Morning prayers at a dance academy under a holy banyan tree.
Photographer: Frédéric Soltan/Sygma/Getty
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In India, it can be hard to see the forest for the trees. As a metaphor for the subcontinent’s struggles with growth, the tree is inescapable.