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Reimagining India

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The book "Reimagining India - Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower" ,published by McKinsey is a collection of articles by leading thinkers from around the world who explore and debate the challenges and opportunities facing the country. "The book’s contributors include CNN’s Fareed Zakaria; Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Mukesh Ambani, the CEO of India’s largest private conglomerate; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; and Nandan Nilekani, cofounder of Infosys and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, as well as a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign-policy experts, journalists, historians, and cultural luminaries".

The book includes an essay by Fareed Zakaria of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, an editor-at-large for Time magazine, This essay is excerpted from Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower. Copyright © 2013 by McKinsey & Company is available in the following website, is a very perceptive analysis of current thinking of Politics and Unity.


The rediscovery of India | McKinsey & Company
 
Well written article. Only future will give us the results. In a way it is too optimistic for some of our forum members.
 
Brahmanyan said:
The book "Reimagining India - Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower" ,published by McKinsey is a collection of articles by leading thinkers from around the world who explore and debate the challenges and opportunities facing the country. "The book’s contributors include CNN’s Fareed Zakaria; Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Mukesh Ambani, the CEO of India’s largest private conglomerate; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; and Nandan Nilekani, cofounder of Infosys and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, as well as a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign-policy experts, journalists, historians, and cultural luminaries".

The book includes an essay by Fareed Zakaria of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, an editor-at-large for Time magazine, This essay is excerpted from Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower. Copyright © 2013 by McKinsey & Company is available in the following website, is a very perceptive analysis of current thinking of Politics and Unity.


The rediscovery of India | McKinsey & Company
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Most of the contributors are representatives of the corporate lobby. They will imagine (rather re-imagine, or wish to alter the imagination of the man-in- the-street) so that India will smoothly fall into the hands of MNCs and corporate giants so that together they will be able to siphon off the last paisa of wealth from this country and leave the country completely bled. Considering our political scene, I shudder to imagine what will happen to this country and its poor people, if the reimagination by MCKinsey gets implemented. Even an agnostic like myself will have to plead to God Almighty (if there really is one such) and crave for his help!!
 
This is what sanatana dharma stands for:
1. Unity despite diversity, and respect and non interference for all sects and practices. Only the aggressive abrahmic religions have vitiated this pellucid pool.
2. Development without westernization and education without anglicization.
3. Equal importance to urban and rural people, industries, way of living, decentralization of power, wealth and resources.
4. Giving space for all types of people and professions - devadasis, transvestites, homosexuals - no one was stigmatised and punished as a criminal.

It is good modi has taken this as his mahamantra - development for all, appeasement of none. A good beginning.

By Dr. Naresha Duraiswamy
I refer to Dharampal's land mark thesis titled "Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts" (New Delhi: Impex 1971) and to other reading.

The archival records in London reveal that the "Madras Presidency" enjoyed impressive levels of prosperity and literacy in the 1700s as well. The affluent village economy in South India supported a broad network of rudimentary schools centered on the village temple, where basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic were imparted. The contrast with levels of education in pre-industrial age England stands out. Dharampal mentions that the Madras Presidency did better than 18th century England on several fronts. These include: the (i) number of schools proportionate to the total population; (ii) number of students attending these institutions; (iii) duration of time spent in school by the students; (iv) educational background of the teachers; (v) range of subjects taught; (vi) percentage of the non-elite in the student population; and (vii) enrolment of girls. This is not to deny the presence of social inequity in pre-colonial India. While India remained a stratified society and upheld the institution of untouchability, it did offer some avenues of advancement for its non-elite.
 
This TED video will give a glimpse of what india needs; chaos, not order, diversity not uniformity, dispersion not coagulation, wisdom not efficiency.

https://www.youtube.com/v/9sGZi_npPog?rel=0

We have to follow our model, not what others do. The european model is already showing signs of crumbling. Our ancient model is not incompatible with progress. science, manufacture, contended living.
 
sarang said:
This TED video will give a glimpse of what india needs; chaos, not order, diversity not uniformity, dispersion not coagulation, wisdom not efficiency.

https://www.youtube.com/v/9sGZi_npPog?rel=0

We have to follow our model, not what others do. The european model is already showing signs of crumbling. Our ancient model is not incompatible with progress. science, manufacture, contended living.
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Very good video....See order in chaos...Relevant to India
 
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