Finished. At last! It’s taken me three weeks of slow, solid reading to get through this book, and it was worth every inch of the journey.Nandan Nilekani, the author, is co founder of the hugely successful IT company Infosys. He is at the heart of the Indian business and economic community, a...
Imagining India as yet another of the United States, full of loud-talking parvenus and peasants playing the stock market on smartphones. Bangalore, which in its modern form seems to have been invented largely by the author, is the least interesting city in the country. The Indian population, it i...
To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery. —Thomas Paine, ‘Dissertation on First Principles of Government’ (1795) IN THE 2012 Manipur assembly polls, eighty-year-old Tongsei Haokip and his wife Veinem cast their votes in Saitu constituency. Not particularly remarkable, except for the ...