Reflections

Rebooting India : Realising A Billion Aspirations By Nandan Nilekani & Viral Shah Rebooting refers to a computer term that involves restarting the operating system; that describes the book and its approach will remarkable accuracy. This is a book that looks at how we can reboot the operating system of our nation : our Governance Backbone; most of us will agree that this is a concept worth looking at, an idea worth consideration just on the basis of the concept stated – without going into the specifics. Moving further, this is also a very hard concept to practicalise / operationalise – and take it beyond the realm of concept and ideas. It is one thing to conceptualise the rebooting of a nation; quite another to suggest a practical and doable method of doing so. This is something that has been on the minds, pens and lips of quite a number of Indians – eminent as well as everyday you and me people; hence some amount of scepticism, or questions are warranted. My h...

INDIA 2020 – A VISION FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM BY DR. A P J  ABDUL KALAM & DR Y S RAJAN This is perhaps one of the best known books penned on India’s Growth Imperatives in its search for developed country status, penned by one of India’s favourite sons-  our beloved Late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President, Nuclear Scientist – and, as it turns out, thinker extraordinaire with a tremendous passion for India and all things Indian.  It has been co-authored with Dr Y S Rajan, who used to be the Scientific Secretary to the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. He was also associated with ISRO and the Department of Space This book, as it turns out, is far more than a mere problems/challenges-and-solutions stuff... it is the dream of a great Indian, a man who had given his entire life in the service of the nation. It is in every way a vision, a passionate dream; but one that is well presented, sorted out, supported with...