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Author Nilekani, Nandan.

Title Imagining India : the idea of a renewed nation / Nandan Nilekani.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  954.053 NILEKANI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  954.0532 NILEKANI    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  954.0532 N59I    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  954 N695I    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  954.0532 NI    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description xii, 511 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [471]-480) and index.
Contents Foreward -- Notes from an accidental entrepeneur -- Part one: India reimagined. Ideas that have arrived -- India, by its people -- From rejection to open arms: the entrepeneur in India -- The phoenix tongue: the rise, fall and rise of English -- From maneaters to enablers -- Home and the world: our changing seasons -- The deepening of our democracy -- A restless country -- Part two: all aboard. Ideas in progress -- S is for schools: the challenges in India's classrooms -- Our changing faces: India in the city -- The long roads home -- Erasing lines: our emerging single market -- Moving deadlines -- Part three: fighting words. Ideas in battle -- The sound and the fury: our biggest fights -- Jostling for jobs -- Institutions of sand: our universities -- A fine balance -- Part four: closer than they appear. Ideas to anticipate -- ICT in India: from Bangalore one to country one -- Changing epidemics: from hunger to heart disease -- Our social insecurities: the missing demographic -- The forest for the trees: India's environment challenge -- Power plays: in search of our energy solutions -- The network effect -- Conclusion: the awakened country.
Subject India -- Economic policy.
India -- Politics and government.
India -- Civilization.
ISBN 9781594202049
1594202044
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