Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India is driving the global economy today and witnessing not just high growth but also psychological renaissance.
Recalling British times when India’s slack growth rate was referred to as the Hindu rate of growth, the PM on Saturday said this term was used by colonialists to defame and undermine an entire faith and civilisation.
Dwelling on the consequences of inferiority complex the British bred into Indians to rule them, Modi said it was ironical that the “so-called intellectuals who find communalism in everything did not see communalism in the term Hindu rate of growth which even found its way onto books and research papers during their era”.
“India is the fastest-growing major economy in the world, a global growth engine and powerhouse. But despite India’s rapid growth no one refers to our progress as the Hindu rate of growth. But this…
