Indian economy has begun to show signs of fatigue. It is failing on growth and it is failing on inflation.
The IIP numbers have fallen to new lows. The growth was on 1.9% for September in contrast to the same period last year when the IIP growth stood at 6.1%. This is the lowest this figure has gone in the last two years. The other negative indicators are the state of our country's private airline companies. All are reporting losses. The crisis at Vijay Mallaya's Kingfisher is the worst among the lot.
Even as industrial growth is falling, inflation has made life difficult for the common man, who in turn has started to mount pressure on the Government. RBI has repeatedly raised its repo and reverse repo rates in a bid to control the beast called inflation - that refuses to be tamed. Each time the "great" economists of our country release statements claiming that inflation will come down, the beast retaliates with an even bigger leap upward.
The signals being received from the overseas are also not very encouraging. The debt crisis that has been brewing in Europe is threatening to bloom into a full fledge recession - double-dip recession as some people prefer to call it. Time alone will tell whether the Union will manage to come out of the crisis or whether there will be no Union left at all.
Leaders are fleeing the scene. After a change in leadership in Greece, Italy's PM Berlusconi has submitted his resignation.
