Diminishing India -- A book review
An easy read on difficult issues! It is far too common for policy makers, economists and those in public domain to write on India’s political economy and public policy. Rarely do those in the corporate sector, barring a few exceptions such as Gurcharan Das, venture to write on issues outside the realm of business policy and the corporate bottom-line. ‘Diminishing India’ is a perspective penned by two corporate honchos whose hearts and minds are evidently engaged with the present-day grim realities of India -- of chronic underdevelopment, of the absence of transparency and of the prevailing cynical acceptance of things as they are. The book stretches across an extensive canvass of the perceived failings of the three estates of the Indian State – the executive, the legislature and the judiciary -- and recounts the missed opportunities in the realm of India’s human and economic development. Mr. Taneja and Mr. Duda provide a template for reforms, reforms which are...