India Unbound

by Das Gurcharan (Author)

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Synopsis of India Unbound

India Unbound Is The Riveting Story Of A Nation???S Rise From Poverty To Prosperity And The Clash Of Ideas That Occurred Along The Way. Today???S India Is A Vibrant Free-Market Democracy, And It Has Begun To Flex Its Muscles In The Global Information Economy. The Old Centralized, Bureaucratic State, Which Stifled Industrial Growth, Is On The Decline; The Lower Castes Have Risen Confidently Through The Ballot Box; And The Middle Class Has Tripled In The Last Two Decades. This Economic And Social Transformation Is One Of The Major Themes Of This Book. Gurcharan Das Recounts The Hope And Despair Of The Last Fifty Years. The Licence Raj Created A Work Environment In Which A Cousin Of The Author, On His First Day At Work In The Railways, Could Precipiate A Strike Just Because He Was Honest. And On One Occasion, The Author, Even Though A Seasoned Executive, Was Driven To Sit By The Polluted Yamuna And Weep After A Fruitless Meeting With A Bureaucrat. The Transformation Began In The Golden Summer Of 1991, When A Reticent Reformer, Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Finally Changed The Nation???S Course Through Sweeping Economic Reforms. A Restrictive Regime, In Which The State Dictated Everything, From A Woman???S Choice Of Lipstick To The Programmes On Television, Gave Way To The Optimism Of A Rising Middle Class Eager To Compete With The Rest Of The World. It Was A Quiet Revolution, One That Has Not Been Chronicled Before. Gurcharan Das Examines The Highs And Lows Of Independent India Through The Prism Of History And His Own Experiences And Those Of Numerous Others He Has Met Following The Reforms, From Young People In Sleepy Up Villages To The Chiefs Of Software Companies In Bangalore. Defining And Exploring The New Mindset Of The Nation, India Unbound Is The Perfect Introduction To Contemporary India. The Powerful Story Of A Nation'S Transition From Poverty To Prosperity. Examining The Highs And Lows Of Independent India Through The Prism Of History And His Own Experiences, Gurcharan Das Defines The New Mindset Of The Nation In Riveting Prose. About The Author Gurcharan Das Is An Author, Management Guru And Public Intellectual. He Is The Author Of The Difficulty Of Being Good: On The Subtle Art Of Dharma (Penguin 2009) Which Interrogates The Epic, Mahabharata, In Order To Answer The Question, ???Why Be Good???? His International Bestseller, India Unbound, Is A Narrative Account Of India From Independence To The Global Information Age, And Has Been Published In 17 Languages And Filmed By Bbc.. He Writes A Regular Column On Sundays For The Times Of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal And Other Papers And Periodic Guest Columns For The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, And Newsweek. Gurcharan Das Graduated With Honors From Harvard University In Philosophy And Sanskrit. He Later Attended Harvard Business School (Amp), Where He Is Featured In Three Case Studies. He Was Ceo Of Procter & Gamble India And Later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). In 1995, He Took Early Retirement To Become A Full Time Writer. He Is Currently On The Boards Of A Number Of Companies And Is A Regular Speaker To The Top Managements Of The World???S Largest Corporations. His Other Literary Works Include A Novel, A Fine Family, A Book Of Essays, The Elephant Paradigm, And An Anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford), Consisting Of Larins Sahib, A Prize-Winning Play About The British In India, Which Has Been Presented At The Edinburgh Festival; Mira,Which Was Produced Off-Broadway To Critical Acclaim From New York Critics; And 9 Jakhoo Hill Which Has Been Performed In Major Indian Cities