Yes, if you check the IMF ranking of nominal GDP, India's GDP in 2013 is actually lower than India's GDP in 2011, their nominal GDP has been shrinking for the past two years of available annual data.
The problem is, they have to learn to differentiate fantasy from reality.
Look at these two contrasting statements:
India to become superpower by 2012: Kalam - Economic Times
BBC News - 'More poor' in India than Africa
Any rational person with a brain can understand that if India is poorer than the entire continent of Africa, it obviously can't be a superpower. But that fact is lost on a lot of them.