Planet India
The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Scribner
BBB Library: Corporate Success, Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 9780743296861
Editorial Review
India is everywhere - Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies; Indian software manages our health records; and Indian customer service centres answer our calls. A country of English speakers and a free-market democracy, with the youngest population on Earth, India is not only the fastest growing market for the next new thing, but a source for the technological innovation that will drive the global economy. Yet, India is also in a race against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than £1 per day, and it must do so in a way that is environmentally sustainable and politically viable on a scale never before achieved. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it may save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world. Like CHINA, INC, published in 2006 by S&S, PLANET INDIA will capture and catalyze the growing interest in this rising power. With in-depth research, interviews and provocative analysis, Mira Kamdar offers a penetrating view of India and its cultural and economic impact on the world. From Bollywood to the Indian diaspora to India's effect on global politics she reports on the people, companies and places shaping the new India. Kamdar examines the challenges India faces while celebrating India's tremendous vitality and the opportunities this Asian democracy has to shape its own and all of our destinies.
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There is no challenge we face, no opportunity we covet, where India does not have critical relevance.
Now, the world is noticing a process of profound recalibration in which the rise of Asia is the most important factor.
India is at once an ancient Asian civilization, a modern nation holding the twenty-first-century’s power.
There are Twenty-two official languages in India. Three hundred and fifty million Indians speak English.
India’s diverse population includes Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrains, Jews, and animists.
A developing country, India is divided among a tiny affluent minority, a rising middle class, and 800 million people who live on less than $2 per day.
If India succeeds, it will demonstrate that it is possible to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
India and China are working to resolve a border dispute that has festered since the two countries went to war in 1962.
India is the world’s youngest country. Fifty per cent of India’s people are under the age of twenty five.
India is becoming an important centre for research and development for scores of major multinational companies.
We much pay attention to where India is heading: we are all likely to end up there, sooner or later.
The Indians marry incredible ambition to problems so terrifying many of us are tempted to pretend they don’t exist.
India has already touched our lives in more ways than most of us might realize. In a very real sense, we already live on Planet India.
Fifty eight percent of Indian Americans have a college degree, whereas only 27 per cent of the general population do.
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Jobs are shifting away from middle aged Americans with expensive health care and benefits, to Indians in their twenties eager to get a job.
Television is playing a uniquely powerful role in India's transforma¬tion. The growth of television in India over the last couple of decades has been breathtaking.
American corporations expect to earn $20 to $40 billion from civilian nuclear agreements with India.
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