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A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader
Indiaas recent economic boomasimilar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europeas during the 1970sahas triggered tremendous social, political, and cultural change. The result is a country that, while managing incredible economic growth, has also begun to fully inhabit its role on the world political stage. In this far-ranging look at the central ideas that have shaped this young nation, Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani offers a definitive and original interpretation of the countryas past, present, and future.
Indiaas future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation in all sectors of public life. Imagining India traces the efforts of the countryas past and present leaders as they work to develop new frameworks that suit Indiaas specific characteristics and challenges. Imagining India charts the ideas that are crucial to Indiaas 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 ideasafrom social security to public health to the environmentacan transcend political agendas and safeguard Indiaas economic future.
As a cofounder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nandan Nilekani has actively participated in the companyas rise in the last fifteen 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 countryafrom within and as a part of the global economyaand charts a new way forward for a nation that has proved itself to be young, impatient, and vitally awake.
Synopsis
In this far-ranging look at the central ideas that have shaped India's recent economic boom, Nilekani offers a definitive and original interpretation of the country's financial past, present, and future.
Synopsis
A visionary look at the evolution and future of India In this momentous book, Nandan Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped India'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? As a co-founder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nilekani has actively participated in the company's rise during the past twenty-seven years. In Imagining India, he uses his global experience and understanding to discuss the future of India and its role as a global citizen and emerging economic giant. Nilekani engages with India's particular obstacles and opportunities, charting a new way forward for the young nation.
About the Author
Nandan Nilekani was listed as one of the one hundred most influential people in the world by
Time in 2006 and 2009 and was named
Forbes's "Businessman of the Year" for Asia in 2006.
Thomas L. Friedman is a world-renowned journalist and author of, most recently, Hot, Flat, and Crowded.