It was manufactured and transmitted in my office, as it was in other media offices. The optimism of 20 was intense and persuasive. In any case, the prosperity of market gamblers only made rents and real estate expensive for the rest of us in Mumbai, and vegetarian restaurants unbearably noisy. I was unaffected by bull runs in markets because no one could convince me then that markets were not rigged. I was unmoved by “India shining" because in my 20s, India was not shining for me, nor did it for the millions who conveyed this message at voting booths.
What was the big deal in exploding a bomb, that too one we did not invent? In fact, what I saw in the rejoicing of the Pokhran tests was a deep sense of cultural inferiority of some Indians who had migrated to the West they were the ones who were the most ecstatic. I did not consider India’s future bright after Pokhran, or during the tech boom from 1998 to 2000, or when India was apparently “shining", or when Tata Steel bought Corus, which was the largest Indian acquisition at the time. This is not the first time I have read in newspapers that the nation is optimistic, but this is the first time I am taking part in it.
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