Publisher's Synopsis
In this book, Launching India into 21st century, Professor Metha observes that India has not achieved even a fraction of its enormous economic potential in the fifty years after it Independence. With the hand of surgeon, Professor Metha dissects the shortcoming of the present day India and proposes remedies with a remarkably keen eye on the immediate and the distant future. While not pretending to provide solution to all its micro problems, Professor Metha suggest the series of economic, political, administrative, foreign policy, and military reforms, which if implemented in totality, will help launch India into the twenty first century and enable it to move from its present status of a tortoise to that of an Asian tiger. Brilliantly written, this book is provocative and disturbing, and yet a penetrating and refreshingly frank analysis of India's weakness and strengths. It is essential reading for every thinking Indian and knowledgeable outsider interested in an economically and strategically significant country.
