Resilience and flexibility as two key enablers of post-covid India Photo: iStockPremium Sanjeev Sanyal Our Atmanirbhar policy is not about isolationism but a unique strategy to leverage internal strengths against uncertainty Share Via Read Full Story The year 2020 saw the biggest disruption of the global economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. Not surprisingly, Indian policymakers simultaneously faced many challenges—the need to manage the health impact of covid, the economic impact of a prolonged lockdown and the second-order impact of a stuttering global economy. This article attempts to lay out the basic intellectual framework of India’s policy response so that readers understand why certain measures and trade-offs were made, and also get a sense of future policies.