RE IMAGINING
INDIA
UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL
OF ASIA'S NEXT SUPERPOWER
CLAY CHANDLER AND ADIL ZAINULBHAI
EDITORS MCKINSEY & COMPANY
Simon & Schuster New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi contents
foreword by Dominic Barton and Noshir Kaka xv chapter one. reimagining 1
The Rediscovery of India by Farced Zakaria 3
Breakout or Washout? by Ruchir Sharma 10
Toward a Uniquely Indian Growth Model by Anand Mahindra 17
How to Grow During the Day by Gurcharan Das 22
In Search of the Indian Dream by Anand Giridharadas 28
Making the Next Leap by Mukesh Ambani 33
What I Learned in the War (on Polio) by Bill Gates 38 chapter two. politics & policy 45
Rural India's Iron Ladies by Sonia Faleiro 47
Something Is Working by Shekhar Gupta 54
Federalism: Promise and Peril by Ashutosh Varsh ney 60
Parsing the Grammar of Anarchy by Patrick French 68
Overtaking the Dragon by Yasheng Huang 74
India Rebooted by Azim Premji 80
A Tale of Two Democracies by Edward Luce 85
The Precocious Experiment by Arvind Subramanian 91 Demographic Dividend—or Disaster? by Victor Mallet 99
Five Ideas for Inclusive Growth by Rajat Gupta, Ann Madgavkar, and Shirish Sankhe 105
chapter three, business & technology 113
"We're Not In Kansas Anymore" by Howard Schultz 115
Innovation: India Inc.'s Next Challenge by Nitin Nohria 120
The Promise of Connected Growth by Sunil Bharti Mittal 126
Thinking Outside the Bottle by Muhtar Kent 130
Finding the Right Remedy by Miles White 135
Bricks and Clicks by Philip Clarke 140
Decoding Digital India by Vikash Daga and Vivek Pandit 144
The Way of the Antewsin by Nisaba Godrej 152
The Next Five Hundred Million by Eric Schmidt 157
Solving India's Most Pressing Challenge by Louis R. Chenevert 163
Betting Big on Bio by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 166
Why Virtual Infrastructure Is a Real Problem by Frank D'Souza and Malcolm Frank 170
How to Win at Leapfrog by Vinod Khosla 175
Power Switch by Jean-Pascal Tricoire 181
Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities by John Chambers 187
Jump-starting India's Start-ups by Naveen Tewari 191
chapter four, challenges 197
A Technology Solution for India's Identity Crisis by Nandan Nilekani 199
Stepping Back from the Precipice by Vikram Singh Mehta 204
Health Care for All by K. Srinath Reddy 210
contents ix The Ed-Tech Revolution by Salman Khan and Shantanu Sinha 215
Who Needs Classrooms? by Madhav Chavan 221
The Creaky Wheels of IndianJustice by Zia Mody 227
India's Infrastruggles by Rajiv Lall 232
Making Sense of Census Towns by Sukumar Ranganathan 238
It Takes More Than a Village by Sonalde Desai 243
India's Farms: Harvesting the Future by Barnik C. Maitra and Adil Zainulbhai 247
A Roadmap for Energy Security by Anil Agarwal 254
Day of the Locust by Ramachandra Guha 258
chapter five, culture & soft power 267
Bollywood: Inside the Dream Machine by Jerry Pinto 269
Cricket Superpower by Harsha Bhogle ' 277
Rediscovering the Core by Mallika Sarabhai 284
Making Chess India's Game by Viswanathan Anand 290
The Paradise of the Middle Class by Manu Joseph 295
From Statecraft to Soulcraft by Vishakha N. Desai 301
Beyond Curry by Rohini Dey 306
Fixing the Fourth Estate by Suhel Seth 312
Going for Olympic Gold by Geet Sethi 317 chapter six. india in the world 325
Asia's Pivotal Power by Bill Emmott 327
India and America: Redefining the Partnership by Stephen P Cohen 333
Butter Chicken at Birla by Kumar Mangalam Birla 338
Can India Inc. Go Global? by Alok Kshirsagar and Gautam Kumra 344 The Closing of the Indian Mind by Kishore Mahbubani
The Village People by Suketu Mehta
Stumbling Toward Peace by Ahmed Rashid
What Friends Are For by Bruce Riedel
Incredible India, Credible States by Christopher J. Graves acknowledgments contributors