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Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, fast-changing society. This book shows how and why. In his previous book, India, Shashi Tharoor, one of India`s most respected writers and diplomats, traced India`s history from late colonial times through its first 50 years of independence. In his new book on the subject, he describes the vast changes that have recently taken place to turn this once sleeping giant into one of the world leaders in the realms of science and technology, a country that now boasts a middle class of over 300,000,000 people-as large as the entire population of the United States. Dividing the work into five parts-politics, economy, culture, society, and sports-he analyzes and discusses, in his usual lucid prose, all the pros and cons of this rapidly evolving world. Artfully combining hard facts and statistics with personal opinions and observations, Tharoor offers a fresh, insightful look at the world`s second largest country.
ISBN : 0670081450
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