Ritesh Kumar Singh is chief economist of Indonomics Consulting and a former assistant director of the Finance Commission of India.
The deaths of 20 of India's soldiers in violent clashes with China along a disputed Himalayan border last month laid bare more than just its military shortcomings.
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