In the age of America first, India needs to move the back office forward

America has an anti-free-trade populist in the White House. Without rethinking how its companies face the world, India will find it extraordinarily difficult to argue that it creates value, that it isn’t simply consigning the American middle class to penury while elevating its own masses from abject poverty. India can only do so by going from being the home of the back office of the world to being a leader in front office activities.

By doing so, it will also address a deeper problem. I ..