I have said this many times but it helps to repeat it: Leadership matters. No nation, no organisation has been built without strong leadership. In Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and China’s Deng Xiaoping, we have two examples of leaders in the Asian region who transformed their countries. In India, Vajpayee did many things right during [...]
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Transforming India: Voting for Leaders
December 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments
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Transforming India: Right Leadership Matters
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments
We tend to underestimate the importance of transformative leadership in politics and government in India simply because we haven’t seen much of it in our lifetimes. Mediocrity has ruled the roost, and we have all tried to build lives that don’t intersect with the government. But when decisions made (or not made) come to hurt [...]
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Transforming India: Target 272 in 2014
December 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments
Having watched how a single state chief minister like Mamata Banerjee with 18 out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha can dictate what Bills the government can pass and with what provisos, it is quite clear we are now in a situation where we are only as good as what the smallest party in [...]
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Transforming India: The Real Problem
December 20th, 2011 · 4 Comments
TN Ninan, writing in Business Standard, put forth an analysis by Raghuram Rajan on the core issues which are at the heart of India’s challenges: Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who [...]
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Transforming India: Opportunities and Optimism Lost
December 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments
We are in the last two weeks of the year. It has been a year wherein we have a slow ebbing of confidence on multiple fronts in the country. The economic indicators are a reflection not so much of the global state of affairs (however much our Finance Minister would want us to believe otherwise) [...]
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Atanu Dey’s book “Transforming India” now available on Flipkart
June 9th, 2011 · 12 Comments
“Transforming India: Big Ideas for a Developed Nation” by Atanu Dey is now available for sale on Flipkart for Rs 200. If you care about India’s future, then this is a must-read book. Here is more about the book and Atanu: Book Summary of Transforming India Have you ever wondered- Why is India so poor? Is [...]
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Big Ideas for India Contest: Winners
April 26th, 2011 · 4 Comments
We have chosen 11 winners. Each of the winners will receive a copy of Atanu’s book “Transforming India: Big Ideas for a Developed India” soon. The winners: FirstBallSix Aaren Mockingbuddha Sushil Umang Saini Prakash Rakesh Babu Pratik Mhatre Jeevak Kasarkod Anshuman Goenka Abhishek Puri Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone for having participate. [...]
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Big Ideas for India Contest: Overview
March 28th, 2011 · 13 Comments
India needs big ideas if we are to create a rich, developed nation in the next 20-30 years. We are not getting these at the national level. In the political skirmishes between the various parties and their leaders, what has been left behind is an agenda of transformation. In every sector of India’s economy, there [...]
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