“We are 1.4 billion people and everyone needs to understand that China industrialised in one way and India will develop differently. We are a really big democracy – and we are also very disobedient,” she jokes. “Ordering one city to specialise in making socks won’t work.” Australia, one of the world’s major immigration nations, is among those courting India. The three million permanent migrants who have arrived in Australia since 2000 are the reason why our population, unlike most of Europe, North America, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, is growing – and more of those migrants came from India than any...