India 2030

by Chikermane, Gautam

• ISBN13: 9780670094431
• ISBN10: 0670094439
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-06-01
• Publisher: Ebury Press

Summary

Thought leaders from twenty diverse fields, ranging from politics, economics and foreign policy to health care and energy predict what 2030 looks like for India and how the nation will evolve in this decade. Editor Gautam Chikermane masterfully weaves together essays from Abhijit Iyer Mitra, Ajay Shah, Amish Tripathi, Amrita Narlikar, Bibek Debroy, David Frawley, Devdip Ganguli, Justice B N Srikirshna, Kirit Parikh, Manish Sabherwal, Monika Halan, Parth Shah, R.A. Mashelkar, Rajesh Parikh, Ram Madhav, Reuben Abraham, Samir Saran, Sandipan Deb and Vikram Sood into a single volume that looks towards India's future.

A handbook for citizens, a road map for policymakers and a guide for scholars, this book captures the many aspects of a future that will culminate in India becoming the world's third-largest economy and a regional power before the decade gets over.

Author Biography

Gautam Chikermane is a writer and the vice president at Observer Research Foundation (ORF). His areas of research are economics, politics and foreign affairs. His last book was 70 Policies that Shaped India (ORF, 2018). Earlier, he has held leadership positions in some of India's top newspapers and magazines, including Hindustan Times, Indian Express and Financial Express. He serves as a director on the board of CARE India, was the new media director at Reliance Industries Ltd, and vice chairman on the board of Financial Planning Standards Board India. A Jefferson Fellow (Fall 2001), he is a student of Sri Aurobindo, the Mahabharata and dhrupad music.