Came across this book 'The Irrelevant Indian' by Shantanu Basu. What a thought provoking eye-popper ! His take on NPAs, loan waivers, food imports, coal and spectrum scams and the shambles of our public finances and what not, makes you sit up and take notice.
..2.The articles on the environment bring out the battering Indians take on their health from coal-fired power plants. He weaves humour and sensitivity into issues like inter-community relations, defence purchases and life of civil servants.
..3.He weaves humour and sensitivity into issues like inter-community relations, defence purchases and life of civil servants.The closing articles out of a total of the 24 are timely reminders of the role of telecommunications and rapidly changing demographics in elections ......
..4......and contemporary authoritarian trends being repeated in our polity, all of which point to the irrelevance of the common Indian in the running of their own country. What emerges from Basu’s outstanding analysis is ..........
..5........that many in the Government have essayed the role of hundreds of modern rapacious East India Companies at work stripping the nation’s wealth for their personal enrichment while........
..6......India remains a low-income developing country in nearly all global and domestic indices.
Guys...Basu’s book makes for a compulsive reading..strongly recommended.
Guys...Basu’s book makes for a compulsive reading..strongly recommended.
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