Gaming goldmine and a yaksha prashna

“Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” is often quoted when describing India’s policy position on many issues historically. Beyond military, geopolitical, and diplomatic (mis)alignments, this adage has also been applied to India’s economic policies of the past — be it pledging our gold away, creating the Licence-Raj behemoth, demonising wealth creation, or overindexing on inefficient economic models.