المراجعة التحريرية | Since the start of the recent global boom in information technology, there's been much talk in economic circles of an India covered with bold stripes, the next Asian tiger. Gurcharan Das, however, sees a much larger but lumbering elephant rising out of the muggy history of a country in which one-sixth of the world's population resides. India, as he states in India Unbound, "will never have speed, but it will always have stamina." How that stamina has evidenced itself over the past half-century is the focus of Das's book, an intricate, personal account of the beginnings of India's ongoing economic and social transformation. |
عن المؤلف | Gurcharan Das is an author, commentator and thought leader. His latest book, India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, was on the Financial Timess best books for 2013. His much-acclaimed The Difficulty of Being Good is 'a riveting examination of governance and corruption in the modern world, said Newsweek. His international bestseller, India Unbound, 'is a quiet earthquake, according to the Guardian. It is available in seventeen languages and has been filmed by the BBC. He is editing for Penguin a fifteen-volume series called The Story of Indian Business, of which ten have appeared. |