false 5501276 1 <B>A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader</B><BR><BR> India’s recent economic boom—similar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europe’s during the 1970s—has 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 country’s past, present, and future.<BR><BR> India’s future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation in all sectors of public life. <I>Imagining India</I> traces the efforts of the country’s past and present leaders as they work to develop new frameworks that suit India’s specific characteristics and challenges. <I>Imagining India</I> 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.<BR><BR> As a cofounder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nandan Nilekani has actively participated in the company’s rise in the last fifteen years. In <I>Imagining India</I>, 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.<BR><BR> A fascinating window into the future of India, <I>Imagining India</I> 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. 5578449 19 3 2009 Imagining India: The Idea of a Nation Renewed total:39|5:0|4:3|3:3|2:0|1:0| 39 145 175 12 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 06:51:08 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 15:41:34 -0700 2009 Indian community, and thoroughly enjoyed Nilekani's writing. It's a
wide-ranging treatise with many big agendas; it covers education,
infrastructure, environmental challenges, government intervention, and
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