Demographers think that India is likely to surpass China as the world’s most populous country, with 1.4 billion people, around 2022. And some economists reckon it might be the world’s largest economy by 2050.3 As Shekhar Gupta, one of India’s most influential journalists put it to me, “Indians now tend to believe that India is on the rise and China is going down. We are the only growing power in the world.”
