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Re Imagining India Unlocking the Potential of Asia's Next 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 .
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