India's Economic Growth - NYTimes.com India's ambassador to the U.S., Nirupama Rao, wrote a letter to the editor, taking issue with a Feb. 10 editorial in The New York Times, titled "India in the Slow Lane." Ms. Rao questioned the argument made in the editorial about India's slow economic growth. "The once-enviable pace has slowed along with the rest of the world's, but the government has acted quickly to lift market confidence, boost investment and address fiscal deficits and trade imbalances," she wrote. She further cited a recent International Monetary Fund report which called India's growth prospects "strong."