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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Imagining India : the idea of a renewed nation Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Includes bibliographical references p. The result is a country that, while managing incredible economic growth, has also begun to fully inhabit its role on the world political stage. In this far-ranging look at the central ideas that have shaped this young nation, Infosys cofounder Nilekani offers an original interpretation of the country's past, present, and future.
Unlike India Unbound , this book focuses primarily on post-independent India and takes a more pragmatic approach towards understanding the problems of contemporary India. Overall, the book is divided into four sets of ideas, that have arrived , that are in progress , that are still being debated, and finally, that have yet to become part of public debate.
Ideas that are in progress People are already aware of these and completing them is now a matter of time. Ideas in battle Citizens and politicians are aware but afraid to talk about these. Good insightful piece of writing, you generally think up the most practical ideas and of course Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani is no exception to this rule. His book, Imagining India, laid the foundations of the revolutionary Aadhar project. He does not exactly […].
Jai hind. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. I have highlighted the best sections of the book in bold. For education, it was decided to follow the three-language formula — Hindi, English, and a regional language. Even though we have an English-language-based economy, a political education policy that tried to suppress English teaching in government schools destroyed the future of several, especially poor, children.
Over time, primarily due to outsourcing, liberalization, and private schools, the attitude towards English has changed. Understanding computers are enablers instead of job eaters The fear among labor unions that technology would destroy jobs was so great that for the computerization of banks, computers were referred to as Ledger Posting Machines. Positive attitude towards globalization From the initial fear of globalization leading to colonialism to globalization which provides more opportunities, improves the standard of living, and eliminates poverty Ideas that are in progress People are already aware of these and completing them is now a matter of time.
Better cities Just after independence, our leaders hated cities, for them, they were a symbol of the colonial past. Politics regularly favored rural development to the extent that states showed their urban areas as rural to get funds from the center despite the fact that India was urbanizing at a rapid pace.
Badly planned urban agglomerations and slums are a consequence of these bad policies.
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