The worst is clearly behind us post the COVID 19 pandemic and India is once again on a high growth trajectory. However, there are heightened geopolitical dynamics in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, the high fuel prices, elevated logistics cost and interest cost, volatile capital flows and exchange rate volatility and the scramble for safe haven and the attendant correction in asset prices. The emergence of newer variants of the pandemic and monkey-pox also threw a spanner in the Indian growth story.