Author: Raghav Bahl
- Raghav Bahl is founder and editor of Network18 as well as publisher of Forbes India. He has been instrumental in crafting successful joint ventures with key media giants and won the prestigious Sanskriti Award for journalism in 1994.
- Raghav was hailed as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and selected by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year for Business Transformation in 2007. This is his first book.
The book:
Is India ready for superpower status? Or are we irretrievably behind in the game of catch-up with China? In his career as a journalist and one of India's top entrepreneurs, Raghav Bahl has often faced a barrage of questions from visiting businesspeople bewildered by India: Why are Indian regulations so weak and confusing? Why is your foreign investment policy so restrictive? How is it that you speak such good English? Inevitably, the questions are followed by the observation: But, you know, that's not the way it is in China. Indeed, even as the two economies are together projected to dominate the world, there is a palpable difference in the way China and India work on the ground. China is spectacularly effective in building infrastructure and is currently investing almost half its GDP. Meanwhile, India is a 'promising' economy: more than half its GDP is consumed by its billion plus population; half its population is younger than twenty-five, giving it a unique demographic advantage; 350 million Indians understand English, making it the largest English-using country in the world In the race to superpower status, who is likely to breast the tape-China's hare or India's tortoise? For anyone looking to understand China and India and the ways in which these two nations are about to change the history of the world, this is the book to read.
Reviews:
Brilliantly written, superbly documented, rich and comprehensive account of the race to dominance between India and China. The book has telling insights into the two Asian powers' histories, polities, economies and cultures.
'I recommend that young global citizens, with aspirations to build a better tomorrow, should refer to and assimilate this work' - N.R.Narayana Murthy
'A must-read for those seeking to decode the India vs China enigma' - Anand G. Mahindra
