If your daddy doesn't have money you can't get no education.
If your daddy doesn't have money you can't enough vitamins to get the brain or the proteins to get the muscles to work properly.
If your daddy doesn't have money you can't even shit with dignity.
Without a middle class or a rich daddy, you are basically screwed.
When 37% of Indians live below poverty line. I dunno how you think skill and nutrition levels are increasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India#Poverty_estima...
To get India going, we need to do all the the article is saying - spend on food, health and eduction. But I would add the state needs to do that, private sector will just screw the poor further - no deliberately, but shit happens.
Being optimistic is just that, optimistic.