India Express: The Future of the New Superpower

India Express: The Future of the New Superpower

by Daniel Lak (Author)

Synopsis

This title weaves together substantive knowledge of Indian politics, economics, and culture with fascinating stories of everyday people. As a BBC correspondent, Lak is known and connected. He also writes for a number of other internationally known periodicals, giving him a wide reach and access to potential reviewers. He has also written for The Economist , Time , The Independent , The South China Morning Post , and The Globe and Mail . Unlike other India books, Lak argues that India has already arrived as a global superpower and that its religion, politics and history have propelled it forward, not hindered it. He writes beautifully and as an expert in this region he has covered for the last twelve years. With its increasing economic importance in the world, continued friction with Pakistan, and a large immigrant population in the US, UK, and Commonwealth countries, India is the next new thing.In beautiful prose and street-level reporting, Daniel Lak argues that India has become a global superpower because of its religion, caste, politics, and poverty and not in spite of it.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st Palgrave Macmillan Ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 27 Nov 2008

ISBN 10: 0230607837
ISBN 13: 9780230607835

Media Reviews
Daniel Lak's journalism from India and around South Asia has been consistently powerful and enlightening. He understands the nuanced realities of the region and never fails to find the human side of a complex and troubling situation. His optimism rare enough in an internaitonal journalist is refreshing, never cloying. - Kathy Gannon, Associated Press special correspondent and author of I Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror In his travels through South Asia, Lak always stayed off the path beaten by other foreign correspondents. No matter where he wandered in India, Pakistan and Nepal, Lak always delved deeper into the culture than the rest of us, coming back with unique insights and wonderful stories. He is rarity among journalists one who portrays his subjects with elegance, compassion and humor. - Tim McGirk, Time Magazine 'As a by-product of the author's long record of informed and authoritative reporting from South Asia, this book brings a lively outside perspective to understanding the directions in which the country is moving.' - William Crawley, Asian Affairs
Author Bio
DANIEL LAK is a reporter with the BBC who has reported on the Indian sub-continent for the last twelve years, working from Pakistan and New Delhi. He reported on the founding of the Taliban in 1995, Kurdish refugee crises in Iran, India's war with Kashmir, and the hijacking of an Indian aircraft by Islamic militants in what later became known as a dry-run for 9/11. Lak now lives in Toronto reporting for the BBC from the Americas and making short documentaries.