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Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World's Largest Democracy

Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World's Largest Democracy

by Mira Kamdar (Author)

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Synopsis

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 GBP1 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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 06 May 2008
ISBN 10: 1847390773
ISBN 13: 9781847390776

Media Reviews
Planet India is a worthy addition to the burgeoning shelf of serious books about 21st century India.

-- Shashi Tharoor, Times of India


This briskly written, vivid account shows how that subcontinental country's films, technology, and service industries have made India an ever-growing presence on the American scene.

-- Atlantic Monthly


This book is an absolute MUST read. It's by far the best book on India and globalization to date and on top of that it's a fun read.

-- Clyde Prestowitz, author of Rogue Nation and Three Billion New Capitalists


Planet India could become one of the most discussed books of the year. Kamdar's book is differenct from other similar themed books--it throws a challenge to the government, business leaders, voluntary organizations and ordinary citizens, and non-resident Indians, to make the Indian Success story meaningful even to the poorest of its citizens.

-- India Abroad


Mira Kamdar takes the seemingly endless historical and cultural cross currents of India and weaves them together into a story that bears on the whole world. She combines her admiration and affection for India and its people with a keen eye for its contradictory impulses, taking readers deep inside an India that is fighting for modernity on its own terms, but also changing, for good and ill, in response to dynamics beyond its control. Indians, both within and outside their country, are changing the fates of people everywhere. Planet India is our planet.

-- Ted Fishman, author of China Inc.

Author Bio
Mira Kamdar is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School and frequently comments on India for such outlets as the BBC, CNN and the Los Angeles Times.