IT'S time to throw out those tired metaphors about the Indian economy being a lumbering elephant. For, at the first-ever gathering of Indians at Singapore, the Global Indian Entrepreneurs' Conference (GIEC) to be held at Singapore's Raffles City Convention Centre from June 19 to June 21, India is being dubbed the 'uncaged tiger'. Says S. Iswaran, a director in Singapore's Ministry of Trade: "As far as we know, it's the first conference of its kind in the world."