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contents
epigraph
foreword by Dominic Barton and Noshir Kaka
chapter one. reimagining
The Rediscovery of India by Fareed Zakaria
Breakout or Washout? by Ruchir Sharma
Toward a Uniquely Indian Growth Model by Anand Mahindra
How to Grow During the Day by Gurcharan Das
In Search of the Indian Dream by Anand Giridharadas
Making the Next Leap by Mukesh Ambani
What I Learned in the War (on Polio) by Bill Gates
chapter two. politics & policy
Rural India’s Iron Ladies by Sonia Faleiro
Something Is Working by Shekhar Gupta
Federalism: Promise and Peril by Ashutosh Varshney
Parsing the Grammar of Anarchy by Patrick French
Overtaking the Dragon by Yasheng Huang
India Rebooted by Azim Premji
A Tale of Two Democracies by Edward Luce
The Precocious Experiment by Arvind Subramanian
Demographic Dividend—or Disaster? by Victor Mallet
Five Ideas for Inclusive Growth by Rajat Gupta, Anu Madgavkar, and Shirish
Sankhe
chapter three. business & technology
“We’re Not In Kansas Anymore” by Howard Schultz
Innovation: India Inc.’s Next Challenge by Nitin Nohria
The Promise of Connected Growth by Sunil Bharti Mittal
Thinking Outside the Bottle by Muhtar Kent
Finding the Right Remedy by Miles White
Bricks and Clicks by Philip Clarke
Decoding Digital India by Vikash Daga and Vivek Pandit
The Way of the Antevasin by Nisaba Godrej
The Next Five Hundred Million by Eric Schmidt
Solving India’s Most Pressing Challenge by Louis R. Chênevert
Betting Big on Bio by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Why Virtual Infrastructure Is a Real Problem by Frank D’Souza and Malcolm
Frank
How to Win at Leapfrog by Vinod Khosla
Power Switch by Jean-Pascal Tricoire
Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities by John Chambers
Jump-starting India’s Startups by Naveen Tewari
chapter four. challenges
A Technology Solution for India’s Identity Crisis by Nandan Nilekani
Stepping Back from the Precipice by Vikram Singh Mehta
Health Care for All by K. Srinath Reddy
The Ed-Tech Revolution by Salman Khan and Shantanu Sinha
Who Needs Classrooms? by Madhav Chavan
The Creaky Wheels of Indian Justice by Zia Mody
India’s Infrastruggles by Rajiv Lall
Making Sense of Census Towns by Sukumar Ranganathan
It Takes More Than a Village by Sonalde Desai
India’s Farms: Harvesting the Future by Barnik C. Maitra and Adil Zainulbhai
A Roadmap for Energy Security by Anil Agarwal
Day of the Locust by Ramachandra Guha
chapter five. culture & soft power
Bollywood: Inside the Dream Machine by Jerry Pinto
Cricket Superpower by Harsha Bhogle
Rediscovering the Core by Mallika Sarabhai
Making Chess India’s Game by Viswanathan Anand
The Paradise of the Middle Class by Manu Joseph
From Statecraft to Soulcraft by Vishakha N. Desai
Beyond Curry by Rohini Dey
Fixing the Fourth Estate by Suhel Seth
Going for Olympic Gold by Geet Sethi
chapter six. india in the world
Asia’s Pivotal Power by Bill Emmott
India and America: Redefining the Partnership by Stephen P. Cohen
Butter Chicken at Birla by Kumar Mangalam Birla
Can India Inc. Go Global? by Alok Kshirsagar and Gautam Kumra
The Closing of the Indian Mind by Kishore Mahbubani
The Village People by Suketu Mehta
Stumbling Toward Peace by Ahmed Rashid
What Friends Are For by Bruce Riedel
Incredible India, Credible States by Christopher J. Graves
charts and statistics
acknowledgments
contributors
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
—Mahatma Gandhi
foreword
Dominic Barton and Noshir Kaka
By the time Alexander the Great reached the Indus River Valley in 326 BCE, he
had vanquished three formidable empires: Syria, Egypt, and Persia. But on a
rainswept night on the banks of the Jhelum, an Indus tributary, the Macedonian
conqueror’s quest for global domination collapsed at the hands of a Hindu king.
Greek historians called Alexander’s Indian foe Porus. According to their record,
he stood seven feet tall and commanded an army of thirty thousand soldiers and
two hundred war elephants. After an all-night battle waged in a howling
monsoon, Alexander eventually forced Porus to surrender. But it was a hollow
triumph. By Indian standards, Porus was a minor raja. The Magadha emperor,
who ruled the lower Ganges River to the east, had many times more men and
elephants. Alexander’s men, exhausted and terrified by the prospect of battling
another giant Indian army, mutinied, compelling Alexander, the most successful
military commander in ancient history, to turn back home.
Modern visitors, too, can find India overwhelming. Passengers disembarking
at Indira Gandhi International Airport’s gleaming new third terminal are greeted
by the Nine Mudras, an installation of colossal metallic hands looming above the
Immigration counter. The hands, according to their designers, are arranged in
delicate gestures from yoga and Indian classical dance to symbolize reassurance,
benevolence, “the oncoming of novel tidings,” and the “linkage between the
individual . . . and the ever-throbbing life force of the universe.” Travelers
proceed under the Mudras, through baggage claim and customs, along the air-
conditioned arrival hall adorned with posters celebrating “Incredible India” and
then out onto the curbside, where they are plunged headlong into “ever-
throbbing” life—and plenty of it.
An abundance of life—vibrant, chaotic, and tumultuous—has long been
India’s foremost asset. As Western economies struggle to recover from global
recession, India’s multitudes earn it a place alongside China as one of the
world’s two indispensable emerging markets. India, with 1.2 billion people, half
of them under the age of twenty-five, is expected to overtake China as the
