Brooke Sample, Columnist

India’s North-South Divide Becomes a Chasm

The country’s development ambitions may be derailed not by a lack of capital, but by a broken internal consensus.

April 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

Brooke Sample is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion and member of the editorial board. She was previously an editor at Metal Bulletin, Bauer Media Group and the Virginian-Pilot.

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