India's economy faces complex challenges despite high growth, including a significant jobs crisis, widening inequality, a weakening rupee (hitting ₹90 to USD in 2025), and structural issues like infrastructure bottlenecks and high import costs, exacerbated by global factors and domestic policy shifts, though past crises (like 1991) spurred major reforms and recovery, creating a paradox of fast growth masking deep distress, notes GK Today and Frontline Magazine.