For the past two days, India's path to becoming the world's fourth-largest economy, one that is projected to soon surpass Japan has made headlines and occupied national online spaces.

While the official change in rankings might still be a year out, most of the overenthusiastic mainstream media have already declared the inevitable.

Nonetheless, a nation's economic story is rarely captured by its headline GDP alone. The Wire's founding editor M.K. Venu discusses other metrics at play with Zeeshan Kaskar.

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