India Emerging

Today's view of history cannot account for ancient anomalies, such as the Pyramids and advanced knowledge contained in India's Vedas. But in 1894, an Indian sage gave us an explanation not only for our hidden past but for the trends of today and for our future enlightenment - the 24,000-year yuga cycle.

Written by an eminent economist, Bimal Jalan, Emerging India: Economics, Politics and Reforms talks about India's growth from the post-reform 1991 era to the modern days and the various challenges plaguing various arms of the government. In this book, Jalan praises the democratic setup that runs this complex and diverse country. Jalan produces a detailed account of the Indian economy and the way it has functioned and the various obstacles in front of it.

What began as a throwaway acronym on Wall Street is now a global force challenging the foundations of Western dominance. BRICS: The Rising Bloc Redefining Global Power is a searing, unsentimental look at how five wildly different nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are leveraging economic scale, geopolitical friction, and institutional fatigue to rewrite the rules of the global order. This is not a motivational fable. It’s a forensic breakdown of a power shift in progress. Across 30 methodical chapters, this book tracks the BRICS journey from speculative concept to ...

For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then, in the early 1990s, the elephant seemed to wake up from its slumber and slowly begin to change - until today, in the first decade of the 21st century, some have begun to see it morphing into a tiger. As India turns 60, Shashi Tharoor, novelist and essayist, reminds us of the paradox that is India.