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Imagining India : ideas for the new century / Nandan Nilekani

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Haryana, India : Penguin Books, 2009Edition: Revised and updatedDescription: 531 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143067078
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.0532
Contents:
Introduction : notes from an accidental entrepreneur
Part I. India re-imagined
India, by its people
From rejection to open arms : the entrepreneur in India
The phoenix tongue : the rise, fall and rise of English
From manaeaters to enablers
Home and the world
The deepening of our democracy
A restless country
Part II. All aboard
Ideas in progress
S is for schools : the challenges in India's classrooms
Our changing faces : India in the city
The long roads home
Erasing lines : our emerging single market
Moving deadlines
Part III. Fighting words
Ideas in battle
The sound and the fury : our biggest fights
Jostling for jobs
Institutions of sand : our universities
A fine balance
Part IV. Closer than they appear
Ideas to anticipate
ICT in India : from Bangalore one to country one
Changing epidemics : from hunger to heart disease
Our social insecurities
The forest for the trees : India's environment challenge
Power plays : in search of our energy solutions
The network effect
Conclusion : the awakened country
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : notes from an accidental entrepreneur

Part I. India re-imagined

India, by its people

From rejection to open arms : the entrepreneur in India

The phoenix tongue : the rise, fall and rise of English

From manaeaters to enablers

Home and the world

The deepening of our democracy

A restless country

Part II. All aboard

Ideas in progress

S is for schools : the challenges in India's classrooms

Our changing faces : India in the city

The long roads home

Erasing lines : our emerging single market

Moving deadlines

Part III. Fighting words

Ideas in battle

The sound and the fury : our biggest fights

Jostling for jobs

Institutions of sand : our universities

A fine balance

Part IV. Closer than they appear

Ideas to anticipate

ICT in India : from Bangalore one to country one

Changing epidemics : from hunger to heart disease

Our social insecurities

The forest for the trees : India's environment challenge

Power plays : in search of our energy solutions

The network effect

Conclusion : the awakened country

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