Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower

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Reimagining India brings together leading thinkers from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by one of the most important and least understood nations on earth. Indias abundance of life vibrant, chaotic, and tumultuous has long been its foremost asset. The nations rising economy and burgeoning middle class have earned India a place alongside China as one of the worlds two indispensable emerging markets. At the same time, Indias tech-savvy entrepreneurs and rapidly globalizing firms are upending key sectors of the world econ#173;omy. But what is Indias true potential? And what can be done to unlock it? McKinsey Company has pulled in wisdom from many corners social and cultural as well as eco#173;nomic and political to launch a feisty debate about the future of Asias other superpower. Reimagining India features an all-star cast of contributors, including CNNs Fareed Zakaria; Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Indias largest private conglomerate; Microsoft founder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; award-winning authors Suketu Mehta (Maximum City), Edward Luce (In Spite of the Gods), and Patrick French (India: A Portrait); Nandan Nilekani, Infosys cofounder and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; and a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign policy experts, jour#173;nalists, historians, and cultural luminaries. These essays explore topics like the strengths and weaknesses of Indias political system, growth prospects for Indias economy, the competitiveness of Indian firms, Indias rising international profile, and the rapid evolution of Indias culture.Over the next decade India has the opportunity to show the rest of the develop#173;ing world how open, democratic societies can achieve high growth and shared prosperity. Contributors offer creative strategies for seizing that opportunity. But they also offer a frank assessment of the risks that Indias social and political fractures will instead thwart progress, condemning hundreds of millions of people to enduring poverty. Reimagining India is a critical resource for read#173;ers seeking to understand how this vast and vital nation is changing and how it promises to change the world around us.

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