Tarun Das India's agenda should be to transform itself into a superpower of peace and prosperity. # Reversing the decline in the manufacturing sector is critical # Micro-enterprise has come to stay # Skills training can transform lives and enable the poor to earn, save, and spend Much has been written on poverty, especially in India. Much more will be written in future. Clearly, looking at the hundreds of millions living in poverty in this country, and the depth and extent of poverty, is not the title "superpower of poverty' shameful but appropriate for India? It overrides all positives and other