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Reimagining India brings together leading thinkers from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by one of the most important and least understood nations on earth. India’s abundance of life—vibrant chaotic and tumultuous—has long been its foremost asset. The nation’s rising economy and burgeoning middle class have earned India a place alongside China as one of the world’s two indispensable emerging markets. At the same time India’s techsavvy entrepreneurs and rapidly globalizing firms are upending key sectors of the world econ­omy. But what is India’s true potential And what can be done to unlock it McKinsey Company has pulled in wisdom from many corners—social and cultural as well as eco­nomic and political—to launch a feisty debate about the future of Asia’s “other superpower.” Reimagining India features an allstar cast of contributors including CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Mukesh Ambani CEO of India’s largest private conglomerate Microsoft founder Bill Gates Google chairman Eric Schmidt Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria awardwinning authors Suketu Mehta Maximum City Edward Luce In Spite of the Gods and Patrick French India A Portrait Nandan Nilekani Infosys cofounder and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India and a host of other leading executives entrepreneurs economists foreign policy experts jour­nalists historians and cultural luminaries. These essays explore topics like the strengths and weaknesses of India’s political system growth prospects for India’s economy the competitiveness of Indian firms India’s rising international profile and the rapid evolution of India’s culture. Over the next decade India has the opportunity to show the rest of the develop­ing world how open democratic societies can achieve high growth and shared prosperity. Contributors offer creative strategies for seizing that opportunity. But they also offer a frank assessment of the risks that India’s social and political fractures will instead thwart progress condemning hundreds of millions of people to enduring poverty. Reimagining India is a critical resource for read­ers seeking to understand how this vast and vital nation is changing—and how it promises to change the world around us.