India at Turning Point

While being anecdotal, he has been prescriptive as well, recognizing the failures of a political, bureaucratic and social system straining to find the balance between the numerous contradictions of India. In this highly readable book he, like me, remains optimistic. There is hope - Shiv Nadar, Founder and Chairman, HCL and Shiv Nadar Foundation. In the six decades since Indias tryst with destiny, we have taken many wrong turns. Public service has become private profit, corruption is normal and we struggle to provide basic services such as education and healthcare to our citizens that is, governance has collapsed. However, there is cause for cheer. India has a young upwardly mobile population, restless for change. We are at a turning point, but will we lose our way again? This is the question T. S. R. Subramanian answers in this book on the relationship between the rulers and the ruled. Subramanian knows the Indian government inside out - he has the outsiders rage at what has gone wrong with governance, he also has the insiders insight into the solutions that are possible. The essays in this book are anchored in this well rounded perspective. With his brand of humour, Subramanian mixes personal experience with public commentary, frustration at all the wrong turns with hope for a better future.