Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India - Softcover

Baru, Sanjaya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143477676 ISBN 13: 9780143477679

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless human capital? And, perhaps most pertinently, is India becoming, after Russia and China, the constricting land of intolerance and authoritarianism from which the elites flee in droves, seeking greener and more liberal pastures—not to forget tax havens. Marshalling his magisterial scholarship into highly readable prose, Sanjaya Baru raises all these questions and more in Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India, which more than being a tome is a wakeup call we had better heed.

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About the Author

Sanjaya Baru has been editor of The Financial Express and Business Standard, and the editorial-page editor of the Times of India and the Indian Express. He was media adviser to former prime minister Manmohan Singh and the director for geo-economics and strategy, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London. He has taught at the University of Hyderabad; the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore; and the Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi. His books include The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh, Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance, 1991: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Made History and India's Power Elite: Class, Caste and A Cultural Revolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143477676
• ISBN 13: 9780143477679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320