Is India ready for superpower status? Or are we irretrievably behind in the game of catch-up with China? What are our key strengths and weaknesses, and what unique things do we have to contribute to the global community in the 21st century? Network18 Managing Editor Raghav Bahl answers these questions in his book Superpower?' The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India's Tortoise.
Superpower published by Penguin Books India, is already being called as one of the most definitive books on the subject. In the race to superpower status, who is likely to breast the tape - China’s hare or India’s tortoise? China’s spectacular sweep, compared to India’s relatively mild rise, could tempt an easy answer. But history unfolds over time.
Bahl argues that the winner of the race with the biggest stakes ever might not be determined by who is investing more and growing faster today, but by something slightly more intangible: who has superior innovation and more entrepreneurial savvy and is grappling with and expanding in the most intensely competitive conditions. And, at the end, it might come down to just one deciding factor: can India fix its governance before China repairs its politics?
Speaking on the occasion of the book's launch, Bahl said, "I always had this niggling little doubt whether I had the resilience and the gumption to actually sit down and work on a 200-250 page book. So I said while this is as good a time I need to try it out and let me go and take this challenge for myself."
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India a Superpower???? Yeah Right. Sure, India can be a "superpower", when all countries except African countries vanish off the face of this earth, then Indian can be a "superpower".
ReplyDeleteIndia a joke. How can Indians who are the ugliest people on the face of this planet, only better than Africans create anything else but a cesspool. India is a overhyped, overrated hellhole. Indians not only look like monkeys they act like monkies. Indian cities are the filthiest cities in the world, Mumbai their so called Business capital being a case in point. Indians are full of false-pride, mainly because of their abysimally low IQ (of 81).
Indians are not going anywhere but down the toilet. This reminds me of another statistics about India: i.e. 600 Million Indians have no toilets. Yes, the defecate in the open. I rest my case.