Apart from food items, eg. Haldirams, the other products labelled “Made in India” are usually jute rope, pottery items and handmade fabric bags. There seems to be limited capability to work with industrial materials in India. On the other hand, Chinese made products are everywhere. There seems to be nothing that is beyond their ability to manufacture. The news that the statue in Vadodara is being made by Chinese just confirms this.

The author’s observations about ” goods imprinted with a false foreign country of origin could be sold for a multiple of the actual price” is also so very true. I know a shop owner in Delhi who sold transistor radios, walkman sets, etc. He would recruit foreign tourists to pose as if the radio was theirs and thereby sell it for 3x the usual price.