Author: Arun Maira
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0761932747
Description
Remaking India is an impassioned critique of India’s current economic and social situation and argues for a better way to create inclusive development and growth. Arun Maira, one of India’s leading business consultants and thinkers, applies the principles of scenario thinking and the learning field to identify some key obstacles to India’s holistic growth.
Deftly weaving memoir with history, this book discusses India’s journey from its birth as a nation, to its more recent liberalized phase. The author examines a broad canvas of concerns, and emphasizes that unless India’s growth percolates to its poor and underprivileged we will have a divided and unequal society and nation. He highlights some key steps that are needed to put India on the appropriate growth trajectory.
He stresses that businesses must look beyond profits and emphasizes the critical need for collaboration between business and government for nation building, and, presents a conceptual roadmap for India’s future, suited to its diverse social, economic and cultural needs.
Insightful, analytical and succinct, this book provides an invaluable insight into India’s current economic and social problems, the rising aspirations of its population and the immense potential that it holds as a nation. It is essential reading for all those concerned about India’s future and the need for change.
Contents
FOREWORD BY RATAN N TATA
PREFACE
INDIA INCLUSIVE
The Real Challenge for Modern Leaders
Time for a National Dialogue
Business By the People, For the People
TURNING POINTS
An Enterprise of People
In Search of Excellence in India
LEARNING FIELDS
How to Accelerate from Zero to Sixty in Six Seconds
The Values We Choose to Live By
CRISES OF ASPIRATION
Looking for a Crisis of Aspiration
Without Shared Visions Empires will Collapse
CHANGING OUR CLOCK
Evolving an Idea for India
Splash Around the Benefits of Growth
NEW WAYS
Managing India: a Single Point Plan of Action
Approaches to Urban Transformation
THE TOWER OF BABBLING
Entertainment sans Edification
The WMD We Really Want
SHAPING INDIA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX