This paper should be a response to the question below pertaining to the book “Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World”. The book has to be read in its entirety. And the response should be to this question: In Our Time Has Come, author Alyssa Ayres argues that “the past” persists in ways big and small in contemporary Indian politics, economics and society. In what areas is this persistence an asset, and in what areas, a liability (and for whom)? Since this is a response pertaining to a specific book, no references should be made except to the book itself.
