Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia's Next Superpower

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Reimagining India brings together leading thinkers from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by one of the most important and least understood nations on earth. Indias abundance of lifevibrant, chaotic, and tumultuoushas long been its foremost asset. The nations rising economy and burgeoning middle class have earned India a place alongside China as one of the worlds two indispensable emerging markets. At the same time, Indias tech-savvy entrepreneurs and rapidly globalizing firms are upending key sectors of the world economy. But what is Indias true potential And what can be done to unlock it McKinsey & Company has pulled in wisdom from many cornerssocial and cultural as well as economic and politicalto launch a feisty debate about the future of Asias other superpower.

Reimagining India features an all-star cast of contributors, including CNNs Fareed Zakaria; Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Indias largest private conglomerate; Microsoft founder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; award-winning authors Suketu Mehta (Maximum City), Edward Luce (In Spite of the Gods), and Patrick French (India: A Portrait); Nandan Nilekani, Infosys cofounder and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; and a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign policy experts, journalists, historians, and cultural luminaries. These essays explore topics like the strengths and weaknesses of Indias political system, growth prospects for Indias economy, the competitiveness of Indian firms, Indias rising international profile, and the rapid evolution of Indias culture.

Over the next decade India has the opportunity to show the rest of the developing world how open, democratic societies can achieve high growth and shared prosperity. Contributors offer creative strategies for seizing that opportunity. But they also offer a frank assessment of the risks that Indias social and political fractures will instead thwart progress, condemning hundreds of millions of people to enduring poverty. Reimagining India is a critical resource for readers seeking to understand how this vast and vital nation is changingand how it promises to change the world around us.

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[A] clear, illuminating study for all readers, business and academic. * Kirkus Reviews *
[Reimagining India] gives global business leaders, once silent on the subject, a chance to voice their opinions about India. -- Harvard Business Review
[T]he book is quite rich in analysis and benefits from the multiple perspectives and information [Reimagining India] should appeal to both the specialist and the generalist readers alike. * New York Journal of Books (online) *
In a book this dense and rich, there's enough to read, and in nice bite-sized packets, too. * Business-Standard *
Impressive. * Financial Times *

Author Bio

CLAY CHANDLER is Asia editor for McKinsey's global publishing division. He is former Asia editor of Fortune magazine and has covered global economics for leading publications including the Washington Post, where he served as Washington, DC-based chief economic correspondent and Hong Kong-based Asian economic correspondent, and The Wall Street Journal, where he was Tokyo correspondent. Clay is a graduate of Harvard University, and was co-editor of the McKinsey-led volume Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future That Works (Shogakukan, 2011).

ADIL ZAINULBHAI is chairman of McKinsey India. Over the course of his thirty-four-year career at McKinsey he has served clients around the world and in a wide range of industriesamong them public companies, government-owned companies, entrepreneurs, and startups. He also has advised governments on social and development issues. A Mumbai native, he returned to his hometown in 2004 as McKinsey's managing director for India. Adil holds an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

McKINSEY & COMPANY is a global management consulting firm, deeply committed to helping institutions in the private, public, and social sectors achieve lasting success. With over 100 offices in more than 60 countries, the firm is a trusted advisor to 90 of the worlds top 100 companies.