As recently as 1990, India was 30 places ahead of China in the global competitiveness index. We are now 30 places behind China. As recently as 2000, there was at least one Indian university/institution in the top 100 global institutions while China had none. Today China has five and India has none.
As measured by patents registered or research publications, China is moving up, and India is moving down. 15. I am making this comparison not so much in despair, but to trigger some introspection about what India should do to regain the glory that we enjoyed as the world’s pre-eminent global power 300 years ago. China has demonstrated what is possible.