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    Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World
    Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World
    Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World
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    Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World

    Written by Mira Kamdar

    Narrated by Shelly Frasier

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    A Lively, indispensable, cutting-edge exploration of our stake in India's gambit to transform itself from a developing country into a global powerhouse in record time.

    India is everywhere-Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies; Indian software manages our health records; and Indian customer service centers answer our calls. A country of English speakers and a free-market democracy, with the youngest population on Earth, India is not only the fast-growing market for the next new thing but a source for the technological innovation that will drive the global economy.

    Yet India is also in a race against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than $2 per day, and it must do so in a way that is environmentally sustainable and politically viable on a scale never before achieved. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it may save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world.

    Like China, Inc., Planet India will capture and catalyze the growing interest in this rising power. With in-depth research, interviews, and provocative analysis, Mira Kamdar offers a penetrating view of India and its cultural and economic impact on the United States and the world. From Bollywood to the Indian diaspora to India's effect on global politics, she reports on the people, companies, and places shaping the new India. Kamdar examines the challenges India faces while celebrating India's tremendous vitality and the opportunities this Asian democracy has to shape its own and all of our destinies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 6, 2007
    ISBN9781400173778
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    Mira Kamdar

    Mira Kamdar is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society.  Prior to joining the Society, she was a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute from 1992 to 2006.  She founded the Institute’s program on Emerging Powers: China, India, Brazil and South Africa, and was a founding member of the program on Citizenship & Security.  She served as Acting Director in 1996-97. Kamdar's critically acclaimed memoir, Motiba's Tattoos:  A Granddaughter's Journey from America into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs 2000; Plume 2001) was a 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and won the 2002 Washington Book Award.  She lives in New York city with her family.

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