It still depends on the look we wear on her

Twenty years ago, is not listening to me, now I exist. When I speak, it is with respect that we listen to me. "For the international Director of the Tata, receiving me in his Office in Bombay, the world has changed. He also turned to the rich wife of one of the magnates of the Indian industry, with which I dine in one of the remnants of the Raj, the famous Bombay Gymkhana. "Yesterday it is barely if one looked at me in the shops of the West." Today, we know our purchasing power and it is quick to use.

And what about this influential member of the Chamber of commerce in Bombay that evokes with an earthquake in the voice the humiliation he has suffered during his multiple trips to Britain, to the heir of a large family, when nationality and "the colour of his skin" was "privileged target" of police checks. "Now all this is finished," he said, with perhaps excessive optimism. "This decade is the Decade of the India."

The India would become within a few years "the country of the trust" Students I meet in the space of places, a large multidisciplinary school Indian, support me in this sense. Could be to Insead or to the MIT. The trust reads in the faces. It receives me with curiosity. They are often more American visitors than French. Bombay wanted to quickly overcome the trauma has represented to the terrorist attacks of November 2008. The Taj Mahal Hotel was reopened a few days after the attack and, would this multiplicity of controls (are they really efficient), everything seems to be back to normal, as if the time required for an Indian to pass such a shock was shorter than that indispensable in a New Yorker.

And yet the Indian trust is not of the same nature, nor of the same quality that confidence Chinese. China's confidence comes from China itself, its history, its culture, of its new economic and geopolitical. "China is back" simply. The Indian trust is more fragile. It still depends on the look we wear on her. The India of today needs to be reassured permanently to believe fully in itself. Probably need to wait for the arrival in power, economic and political, of a new generation, which has no more memory of the Raj period, that the India should fully take its rise, without any complex.

Independence of the territories of the Crown is that of a little more than sixty years. And before that for more than three centuries, was a Muslim empire, the Mughal Empire, who ruled on the India. One cannot understand the complex relationship between the India and Pakistan without integrating this historic dimension. The descendants of those who were dominated yesterday are triumphant. Muslims are at the head of State more collapses on itself every day.

Beyond history, there is a policy, otherwise the culture. The democratic system allows the India to leave free course to all criticisms and without indulgence, the least that can be said that Indian citizens watch their political class.

Finally there is, beyond statements that reflect new and very real emotions as a doubt. And if this enthusiasm was not totally justified And if the challenges of education, health, infrastructure and poverty were simply too giant Almost half of the population of Mumbai still living in slums. And how, attracted by the "city lights", are in absolute poverty

The greatest challenge of the India, no doubt, is the campaigns. How to retain the fields these peasants that millions go to cities A "new green revolution" is necessary. Must only feed these Indians, it through agriculture providing a decent income.