That the Indian Economy is on the edge of a precipice is a sequitur. Which trigger would send it hurtling down an interminable abyss is anybody’s guess. The indisputable fact is that social disharmony and economic progress do not go hand in hand. The politics of socio-religious polarisation, coupled with the relentless depredations of law enforcement agencies, have terminated the turn of the economic wheel. Only straight-faced chicanery can deny that India is not in the throes of a structural slowdown/ recession.