India’s GST, Hyped as Another Tryst With Destiny, Remains a Half-Way House of Disruptions

The central hall of parliament was the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s choice of venue for the launch of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. A midnight session on June 30, 2017, in what could only be construed as a throwback to the historic ‘tryst with destiny speech’ delivered by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the Constituent Assembly on August 14, 1947. How…