There is one common factor that defines that journey-disruptions. With unfailing regularity, almost every decade of India's history since Independence has been marked by major disruptions. Indeed, India became independent through an act of disruption-the Partition that killed millions in communal violence and turned many more into refugees in what was once their own land. The turn towards a model of state-led economic development delivered as big a shock to the economy as did the food crisis or the spiking of crude oil price or the nationalization of half a dozen industries.