India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation - Softcover

Balch, Oliver

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9780571259267: India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057125926X ISBN 13: 9780571259267

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2013

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India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire entrepreneurs are springing up at every turn. Bollywood is going global and Indian expats are flooding back home. What's more, these changes are occurring within the world's largest democracy - a far cry from neighbouring China. But who and what lies behind India's apparent ascendency?

In India Rising Oliver Balch takes the voices and stories of everyday Indians and presents a fresh, vivid, highly personalised account of the changes as they are unfolding.Travelling the length and breadth of the country, Balch leads readers off the tourist trail and onto the streets of modern day India. From cricket stadiums and shopping malls to rural schools and shanty towns, the book blends the best of reportage and travel writing to get under the skin of this nation in transition.

What emerges is a captivating portrait of a country at a crossroads. Old versus New. Global versus local.India's march into the twenty-first century is full of tensions and uncertainties. But so too is it brimming with optimism and hope. With over half of its billion plus population under the age of twenty-five, India's future will be written by its youth. In describing their hopes and exploring their fears, India Rising unpicks what makes this vast nation tick and asks where it's heading.

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Review:

'Oliver Balch beautifully captures the spirit and rhythm of a nation. Balch foregoes analysis and history-book fact-feeding for a collection of lively anecdotes gathered from across the subcontinent ... The stories are illuminating, and Balch s writing is just plain excellent.' --Irish Times

'Oliver Balch brings a zestful, youthful approach to a sub-continent as ancient as history but young in the perpetual reinvention of itself ... Energised and excited by India, Balch's set pieces add up to a well-made drama of lives in a complex, colourful, competitive landscape where extremes, often to their mutual dismay and distress, collude and collide.' --Iain Finlayson, The Times

The first thing to recommend is how well written it is. The second is that as well as talking to tycoons, Balch also asks ordinary folk about the bewildering pace of change.' --Conde Nast Traveller

Book Description:

In India Rising, Oliver Balch travels around India telling true stories from the front line of an emerging economy.

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