“If you are an investment banker and don’t figure on the list of invitees, you might as well curl up and die,” said a report in Business Standard in February this year, referring to a summit in New Delhi attended by 250 key financial market players from 35 countries. It was hosted by a little-known ‘independent think-tank’ called the India Foundation barely two months before the general election. The highlight of the meeting: an address by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.