India’s Takeoff Has to Start on the Factory Floor

India’s election campaign has officially begun. Few expect Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be unseated by the time it concludes. Yet, objectively, he should be in a lot more trouble electorally than he is.

India’s working-age population swells by perhaps eight million a month. Modi’s biggest promise to India’s young and restless voters when he first ran for nationwide office, 10 years ago, was to vastly expand employment opportunities.