Part 2: Three decades after the 1991 crisis, India’s record Forex reserves have transformed the country from a crisis-prone borrower into an economy with a formidable external shock absorber. AI generated image Three decades ago, India had so few dollars that it had to pledge gold to avert a balance-of-payments crisis. Today, it sits on a foreign-exchange war chest of more than US$700 billion. The journey from near-bankruptcy to external resilience is one of the quieter succe