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A VISIONARY LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION AND FUTURE OF INDIA BY A PREEMINENT BUSINESS LEADER
Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book about modern India. India is a young nation; recent economic growth has triggered tremendous social, political, and cultural change. In Imagining India, Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped the country's past and present and asks the key question of the future: How will India as a global power avoid the mistakes of earlier development models?
Imagining India offers a vibrant new perspective on what's really at stake in the world's largest democracy. India has begun to fully inhabit its role on the world political stage, but its future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation in all sectors of public life. Imagining India charts the ideas that are crucial to India's current infrastructure revolution and quest for universal literacy, urbanization, and unification; maps the ideological battlegrounds of caste, higher education, and labor reform; and argues that only a safety net of ideas-from social security to public health to the environment can transcend political agendas and safeguard India's economic future.
As a co-founder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nandan Nilekani has actively participated in the company's rise in the last twenty- seven years. In Imagining India, he uses the global experience and understanding he has gained at Infosys as a springboard from which to discuss the future of India and its role as a global citizen and emerging economic giant.
A fascinating window into the future of India, Imagining India engages with the central ideas and challenges that face the country-from within and as a part of the global economy and charts a new way forward for a nation that has proved itself to be young, impatient, and vitally awake.
ISBN:9780670068449
