A recent civil service job posting for a few hundred tea boys and night guards attracted 2.32 million applicants.

Mere days after Modi bowed out of the fight to reform India’s land law, a company cancelled its plans to build a massive, job-creating steel plant. This doesn’t look good for India’s aspirations to be a major world power.

Modi’s top priority for economic reform is a land bill that’s been hotly contested in parliament. Now, he’s throwing in the towel.