Books: Think India

Vinay Rai, an engineering graduate from MIT, is a businessman turned academician turned philanthropist and philosopher. He has been a part of Indian industry for thirty years, becoming at one time among the top two hundred wealthiest people in the world. William L. Simon is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including international bestsellers on subjects ranging from the art of composer hacking, to the building of an interplanetary spacecraft, to iCon, a New York Times bestselling biography of Steve Jobs.

Bullish on the India story, Mr Rai writes, As an Indian businessman-tuned-philanthropist, I have been not just a witness but a player in the extraordinary and unexpected recent history of this country, events that are catapulting India on a fast track from a third world nation to a world leader. (Yes, leader).

The book says that explosive force of India on the move is already making itself felt on the move is already making itself felt on the international scene. Our gross domestic product, with the highest growth rate in the world after China, is predicted to make India the worlds number-three economic power within fifteen years. According to the January 2007 edition of the Goldman Sachs BRICs Report, India will surpass the GDP of the United States by 2050. That shift, already rapidly under way fueled by Indias youth, on the road to becoming the worlds largest population of young people, with a purchasing power that is soaring and with salaries much greater than those of their contemporaries in China will make this vibrant group the largest potential customers worldwide for consumer goods and services, says the book.

Written largely for the international audiences, the book says, You cannot visit India today without sensing a nation on the move. A feeling of abundance and optimum combined with a belief in Indias destiny pervades all walks of life. India has all the resources land, water, oil and gas, coal, minerals and is driving forward to take its place among the leading nations of the world. It is already one of the fastest-growing markets for American products; by 2020 one-half of the world population of people under age twenty-five will be here in India!

The book is divided in ten chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of India today, followed by a chapter that lays out the story of how a nation only lately recovered from being under the thumb of the Soviets came to be the home of an IT and outsourcing revolution.

Chapter 3 looks at the glowing face of Indias finance capital, Mumbai, and the fairy tale of its bizarre growth. In Chapter 4 explores how Indias seven-thousand-year history shapes the thinking and attitudes of Indians today. In Chapter 5 examines the crucial role of India in the United States global war on terror and as an effective counterbalance to the growing threat of a potentially menacing China. The following chapter, Indias Growing Global Muscle, looks at the impact locally as India, for the first time in over a thousand years, struts on the global stage. Chapter 7 unveils the paradoxes of the Indian personality the nature of these multidimensional, multitasking, multiprocessing, highly Innovative entrepreneurial minds. Chapter 8 and 9 deal with the challenges of poverty. The book concludes with a look at the future of India.

Commenting on the book, Scott R. Bayman, former president and CEO of GE India wrote, In my fourteen years living and working in India with GE, I learned one big lesson. India is a confusing and difficult place to quickly enact change and make rapid progress. Vinay takes up the classic case of near and yet so far. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand India.

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Vinay Rai, an engineering graduate from MIT, is a businessman turned academician turned philanthropist and philosopher. He has been a part of Indian industry for thirty years, becoming at one time among the top two hundred wealthiest people in the world. William L. Simon is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including international bestsellers on subjects ranging from the art of composer hacking, to the building of an interplanetary spacecraft, to iCon, a New York Times bestselling biography of Steve Jobs.

Bullish on the India story, Mr Rai writes, As an Indian businessman-tuned-philanthropist, I have been not just a witness but a player in the extraordinary and unexpected recent history of this country, events that are catapulting India on a fast track from a third world nation to a world leader. (Yes, leader).

The book says that explosive force of India on the move is already making itself felt on the move is already making itself felt on the international scene. Our gross domestic product, with the highest growth rate in the world after China, is predicted to make India the worlds number-three economic power within fifteen years. According to the January 2007 edition of the Goldman Sachs BRICs Report, India will surpass the GDP of the United States by 2050. That shift, already rapidly under way fueled by Indias youth, on the road to becoming the worlds largest population of young people, with a purchasing power that is soaring and with salaries much greater than those of their contemporaries in China will make this vibrant group the largest potential customers worldwide for consumer goods and services, says the book.

Written largely for the international audiences, the book says, You cannot visit India today without sensing a nation on the move. A feeling of abundance and optimum combined with a belief in Indias destiny pervades all walks of life. India has all the resources land, water, oil and gas, coal, minerals and is driving forward to take its place among the leading nations of the world. It is already one of the fastest-growing markets for American products; by 2020 one-half of the world population of people under age twenty-five will be here in India!

The book is divided in ten chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of India today, followed by a chapter that lays out the story of how a nation only lately recovered from being under the thumb of the Soviets came to be the home of an IT and outsourcing revolution.

Chapter 3 looks at the glowing face of Indias finance capital, Mumbai, and the fairy tale of its bizarre growth. In Chapter 4 explores how Indias seven-thousand-year history shapes the thinking and attitudes of Indians today. In Chapter 5 examines the crucial role of India in the United States global war on terror and as an effective counterbalance to the growing threat of a potentially menacing China. The following chapter, Indias Growing Global Muscle, looks at the impact locally as India, for the first time in over a thousand years, struts on the global stage. Chapter 7 unveils the paradoxes of the Indian personality the nature of these multidimensional, multitasking, multiprocessing, highly Innovative entrepreneurial minds. Chapter 8 and 9 deal with the challenges of poverty. The book concludes with a look at the future of India.

Commenting on the book, Scott R. Bayman, former president and CEO of GE India wrote, In my fourteen years living and working in India with GE, I learned one big lesson. India is a confusing and difficult place to quickly enact change and make rapid progress. Vinay takes up the classic case of near and yet so far. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand India.

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With the economy soaring, India is a medical and pharmaceutical frontrunner, an R&D powerhouse, a rising manufacturing hub, and an up-and-coming cultural trendsetter. And the world is taking note. Businessmen and educator Vinay Rai, who also runs Rai Foundation and Rai Education Group, along with New York Times bestselling writer William L. Simon explores the foundation and future of the new India, and its impact on Americans in the book titles.