The crouching tiger

India is a complicated reality. With a population of more than 1 billion and about 5,000 years of history and culture, how could it be otherwise? While we've been recently offered new visions of India's past and future, it's the present that is giving the world's largest democracy conniptions. While it’s economy continues to expand, the country is also still dependent on foreign aid. On it's march to taking it's place on the world stage, it's facing tough climbs on basic issues such as health and education. It's ability to solve them will be the key challenges in its rise as a world power.