India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. It will be a mistake not to take advantage of the Indian growth story by investing in India. Investing in India will provide diversification benefits to US Dollar or foregin currency portfolio. US government is issuing huge sovereign debt that is going to depreciate US Dollar in the future. Dollar depreciation in the future will hurt your savings and purchasing power if your assets are denominated in dollar. Investors are still discovering India and there are huge growth opportunities in individual stocks that are going to be market leaders of tomorrow. India has well organized stock exchanges that lists over 4500 stocks. India ranks second in the world after USA in terms of the number of publicly listed stocks. Investors who kept faith in the Indian story during market turmoil of 2008 were handsomely rewarded during the subsequent recovery in 2009. Unlike other emerging market countries, India does not depend on exports for it's growth. It's the domestic consumer demand that is fueling growth in India. India's advantage is that the ratio of consumer debt to GDP is only 11 percent, well below those of India's Asian peer, who average around 59 percent. The underleveraged Indian consumer will shift it's wealth tied to physical assets like Gold or real estate to financial assets. Also, consumer-led economies are far more stable than export led economies. Large and growing middle class (120 million households by 2010), young demographics (more than 50 percent of the population is under the age of 29) are some other advantages India has over other nations. Indian financial institutions are strong and did not suffer any panic attacks during financial crisis due to well managed monetary and regualtory policies by the Reserve Bank of India, India's central bank. All the major political parties have embraced reform policies and inspite of opposition from the left parties, deregulation and growth minded policies is a one way street. In recent general elections, Indian voters marginalized all the political parties that were opposed to pro-growth initiatives.