How to End Partisan Gridlock, India Edition

Like legislators everywhere, opposition members of India's parliament would prefer to focus more on the failings of the ruling party than on their own. They need to shift their attention -- and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to have to find a way to work with the very politicians he so soundly defeated last year.

Three days into its "monsoon" session, parliament has yet to conduct any real business, let alone enact economic reforms the country so badly needs. Neither Modi nor India can afford the delay. Industrial production in India remains sluggish a year after Modi swept into power, while private and public investment is lackluster. Once-frothy investor optimism is waning; after climbing 30 percent in 2014, the benchmark index has barely budged this year.