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Episode: India 2025: Aspiration vs Execution
Description: As 2025 comes to a close, India stands at a crossroads between ambition and execution. Infrastructure expansion, aviation growth, labour reform, environmental protection, digital transformation and legal reform all promised progress—but delivery often faltered, and in many cases, was rolled back.In this audio, Sucheta Dalal examines how grand policy announcements collided with weak institutions, regulatory capture, political risk and poor implementation. From collapsing bridges and aviation disruptions to environmental reversals, labour unrest, power sector pushback, bankruptcy failures and rising digital fraud, the year exposed a recurring pattern: reforms announced at the Centre struggle when they me...