The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor Back On: 27th Jun 2012
Quoting Shashi Tharoor from one of his columns in Sunday Times from about a year ago. "Underdevelopment used to be the condition erroneously ascribed to India by economic theoreticians, who looked at some of our labour-intensive agricultural techniques and promptly concluded that we were primitive. In fact, everything in India is overdeveloped, particularly the social structure, the bureaucracy, the political process, the monetary system, the university network, the industrial base and (as Galbraith tactlessly observed) the women. Given its economic and imperial history in a number of previous Golden Ages under Ashoka, Vikramaditya and Akbar, India is not underdeveloped at all; it is, as I argued in The Great Indian Novel, a highly developed country in an advanced state of decay." Read the novel with this one idea and satisfaction is guaranteed.
GOOD BOOK. I Think all should read this book
