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entrepreneur, the visionary leader, and the author in Nandan Nilekani presents to readers a stream of mindboggling insight and perspective on India's march ahead in a technologydriven modern world in his book titled Imagining India: Ideas For The New Century.
As the title suggests, the book puts forth author's views on development, implementation, effective execution, and completion of several impending national and industrial projects on various front in our socioeconomic sphere.
Based on his understanding of country's economic and political structure, the author has persistently weighed his views on the need for developing a continual mindset for identification of problems hindering growth in various components of our social, economic, and political structure.
The author Nandan Nilekani has put his best foot forward in proposing several innovative, intellectual, politically correct corrective measures to be inculcated in India's social and digital infrastructure, A striking feature of Nandan Nilekani's take on intricate matters in Imagining India is that it is in complete agreement with the ambitions nurtured and endeavours pursued by several youth contingent of our country.
Imagining India: Ideas For The New Century by Nandan Nilekani is about progress, prosperity, and development that await India in thest century, The author's vision on India as a developing nation and the need for implementation of various corrective procedures in country's social infrastructure take centrestage in the compilation, The author's work promote and endorse new, refreshing innovative objectives with purposeful focus and dedication to tackle strategic deficiency identified at operational levels in various business development sectors, The thoughtprovoking work emphasizes the need for a determined effort from India's administrative authorities and governing bodies to resurrect and revive country's failing image of a fiercely competitive world competitor, and to aid its empowerment by overcoming infrastructural woes along with other social, political, and economic hurdles.
True to the totalitarian outlook adopted by developed nations during their period of struggle, revival, and subsequent emergence as world's major superpowers, the author proposes a more conservative approach for achieving country's objectives without foregoing the fundamental ideologies of totalitarianism.
In other words, the work focuses on providing intuitive totalitarian perspective of a mild form to champion the cause of making India a digital superpower and help it dive deep into the ocean of substantial economic growth.
Mr. Nilekani has put into good effect his vast experience on professional front as head of one of India's leading IT companies Infosys, to propound the necessity of devising collective futuristic goals for India, and the role of Information Technology in accelerating implementation process of the devised goals.
It helps that one of Digital India's most influential and prolific IT professional embarks on a journey of carving out new initiatives to tackle challenges and questions the technically savvy modern world is posing to India, through an informative and knowledgeablepage compilation.
The wide, everexpanding element of vulnerability observed in India's socioeconomic condition is exposed to a fresh set of revival strategies and propositions from the author, The revered Infoscion leaves no stone unturned in unraveling the inputs provided by various professionals from the software industry and by other technology heads in our country, further reiterating a reader's sufficing exposure to surfeit progressive measures with the read and the need for embracing a definitive motion to promote this work in unison.
The core motif in Mr, Nilekani's writing is the emphasis laid on team work, man management and strong work ethics which constitute the defining elements in an organization's or nation's quest for sustained growth and progress.
The book openly embraces broader perspective on establishing reliable interconnectivity within the geographical bounds of a country encompassing interlinked communication and road transport infrastructure development conglomerate firms, The systematic approach adopted by the author in penning formidable challenges knocking the door in India's socioeconomic setup serve the bibliophiles well with every page flip,
The author's preference and liking for gathering information in a systematic and well organized manner in addition to skillful choice of words lend the work the desired finishing touch.
The absorbing read accounts for an interesting reading experience with the fourpronged volume arousing every bookworm's curiosity by unveiling the matter on hand in four parts which describe India's transformation since acquiring independence, beginning with the initial phase of stagnant growth observed in country's economy to the industrial revolution that facilitated deployment of several key technologies and techniques in the manufacturing sector to speed up the production of basic essentials.
Amidst the mention of these progressive occurrences, the book elaborates India's bold step toward liberalization of economy that allowed inflow and outflow of capital to and from foreign markets with considerable success following the dynamic leadership of the then finance minister, Mr.
Manmohan Singh. The book, in leaps and bounds elucidate the advent of information technology and the subsequent rapid growth observed in India's private sector, Nandan Nilekani, in his writing venture brings to light the viewpoints and benefits from his several immersed interactions with dignitaries from various industries, economists and reformers, and government officials occupying several important positions in ministry of finance and technology.
The most fascinating aspect of Nandan Nilekani's writing is his ability to jot down the matter on hand and follow it up with an insightful dissemination of information through a broader outlook.
The author's keenness to paint a larger picture on India's potential for growth is evident from the manner in which he obliges all sections of the economic and political hierarchy with instinctive flair and collective wisdom.
The ability to differentiate between distinguished socioeconomicbusiness model of developed and developing nations besides pinpointing common ground in their infrastructure to establish a firm correlation with the definitive, purposeful patterns which frame our country's socioeconomic business model, and proffer feasible solutions to mitigate defects in its hierarchy seem to adhere instinctively with author's persona.
The fourpronged compilation poses several sincere questions to its reader regarding globalization, the need to touch upon various subjects concerned with economic ideologies to arrive at solutions which are guarded by longevity and feasibility.
Further, the social challenges and economic hurdles encountered by entrepreneurs in India by virtue of corrupt practices by government representatives and officials in charge of administrative units, and the role of Information Technology in curbing corruption through digitization of government and consumer services get the desired degree of author's attention.
The business icon invariably has established his viewpoint based on the influence of Eastern political ideologies on mindset of people living in India and in other countries, As the author dives deep into the Malthusian way of governance and administration that the Chinese contingent adopted following the formation of Marxist regime in European countries, a wave of rational wisdom reins over author's reasoning on the matter.
He precisely presents world's opinion of India and its citizens through eyes of million citizens to strike a chord with their views about our country, In short, the author's inclination lies toward understanding principles which govern autocratic and democratic form of government,
The first part is essentially a chore describing India's history on all fronts and its tryst with destiny since the end of
British rule, The author brings to fore India's unwillingness to embrace the ghost named modernization, India, in its first few years after independence went into a nutshell showing reluctance in opening its door for liberalization of economy, This aspect i. e. the conservative approach of various Indian governments from the past cost India dearly for it dragged on for decades harming country's overall growth prospect, The struggle and success which came India's way during this tumult receives author's appreciation and disapproval in equal measure, Capitalism is another apparition that Imagining India enlightens the bibliophiles on, Demographics population explosion, conflict with neighboring countries, entrepreneurship, antiincumbency factor that gained momentum at different point in time under governance of various political regimes, the progressdriven resurrection of Indian business establishments following industrial revolution, the exposure of Indian businesses to foreign exchange trade, Bombay's business polygamy beginning with Bombay Plan to Bombay Club to Bombay House, India's roller coaster journey with the language English, the use of English as a tool to make inroads into the vast European literature to allow its influence on nationalism, the conflict between southern and northern states on use of English as the official language, India's negative response to protechnology policy, reemergence of Information Technology with economic liberalization, the march of information technology in Indian banking sector, information technology's roar in elections and railways, besides several similar pilot and fullfledged projects have their relevance touched upon by the author in the book.
The entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani's jovial nature is evident from the hilarious snippets chosen by him for inclusion in his work, One snippet for laughs that mock Soviet Union and their workforce for lack of enthusiasm shown in advanced technology invents the hilarious oneliner 'Robots don't drink', The witty remark is an excerpt from an interview of Soviet Union's policy makers when asked to comment on Soviet's intentional makeover in Information Technology sector and Robotics,
The second part focuses on channeling its energy on education sector imparting to readers knowledge on evolution of government and private schools, education schemes introduced by government further adding the impact of progressive technology on shift from physical classroom learning to online classroom learning.
The matter presented in this part throws light on rapid development in infrastructure that took place in urban India with surge of IT sector, With further page flip, the bookworms are bound to discover complexities of SEBI directives and GDP which have defined fluctuations in Indian economy over the years,
The third part delves deep into details associated with conflict of interest arisen on more occasions than one in Indian political system due to constant change in governance over last three decades.
The turn of events during periods of political stir have prevented several innovative initiatives from seeing the light of day, The bulk of initiatives waiting in queue to come into effect are those which were abandoned due to change in governance in our country, The varying political ideology and development philosophy of India's major political parties are in a way responsible for infrastructure projects to hang in the balance, get delayed, or shelled, The need for expansion of fluctuating job market for it to reach the remotest towns in India, the structuring of a movement to facilitate the same, the rise of capitalist states, the need to introduce variant growth policies, the solutions implemented thus far by India to curb corruption, author's defense of the ever doubted credibility of Indian universities, the trifling with education policies, the task of establishing the sense of our universities through a democratic viewpoint and collaboration of these fundamentals of constitution to arrive at a foolproof plan to eliminate the defects is the subject touched upon by the author in the penultimate segment.
The fourth part explores the impact Information Technology initiatives undertaken by private IT sector in collaboration with government have had on globalizing India and its states, The sophisticated technology we get to experience at every nook and corner of our cities have been crucial in projecting India on the global map as one of world leaders in Technology.
Technology has gained entry into every household in urban India, A fact, citizens of India may not have been in position to affirm three decades ago, A section in this part is dedicated to several land reforms that have made task of contesting lands easier through effective use of technical procedures, India's ambition to create national information utilities and make it readily available to the masses through a well defined electronification framework also features in author's ideas for reimagining India, The influence of advanced technology on healthcare and the challenges our country is facing at the hindsight of tremendous progress achieved in biotechnology and use of sophisticated medical equipment occupy considerable writing space in author's researched thesis.
The work approaches the end leaving readers with plethora of positives on India's socioeconomic growth and infrastructure, political system and its optimism, schemes proposed to resolve social insecurities of countrymen, paramount attention to farmers' issues and ways to curb their debts, growing concerns over environment due to felling of trees and industrialization, the solutions for our energy needs, use of foreign equipment, technique, and technology for quality assurance and industrial efficiency, meeting demand in our oil needs, prioritizing energy policy, addressing importing inefficiencies, devising revised strategy for handling renewable energy, establishing localized Research amp Development centres to benefit from selfsustained economic growth and economic empowerment awaiting India in the twenty first century.
Imagining India: Ideas For The New Century by Nandan Nilekani captures the imagination of a progressive thinker and leader in a precise manner to churn out India's prospects of attaining accelerated economic growth taking into account an allround view on the development aspect.
The author is hard hitting and straight forward in his approach of penning matter when it comes to delivering criticism on failure of political and economic setup in India, The best aspect of Mr, Nilekani's writing is his uncurbed enthusiasm for identifying, understanding, and proposing solutions for India's problems on various front, His ability to perceive matter on a broadspectrum with openmindedness gets highlighted frequently in the read, Imagining India: Ideas For The New Century by Nandan Nilekani acquirespoints to exhaust all points in my points table to render it a state, A politician will find Imagining India useful after completing the read, A reformer will find Imagining India purposeful after completing the read, An economist will find Imagining India tactful after completing the read, A techie will Reimagine India after completing the read, And, a bibliophile will doze off Imagining India to experience virtual reality, A brilliant read which adds a new dimension to our imagination, Have fun to develop a vision A vision for progressive India,
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