Maximize Your Life: An Action Plan For the Indian Middle Class - Hardcover

Varma, Pavan K; Khandekar, Renuka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067088894X ISBN 13: 9780670888948

Publisher: Viking, 1999

Synopsis

India is home to the largest middle class in the world. It is also the country with the largest number of the world's poor (over 600 million), where 290 million people can neither read nor write, and a child dies every three minutes of something as easily curable as diarrhoea. These are statistics that most middle-class Indians prefer to ignore, especially in post-liberation India.

About this title

Synopsis

In this first-of-its-kind book, Pavan K. Varma, author of the best-selling The Great Indian Middle Class, teams up with journalist Renuka Khandekar to show its why and how the middle class should engage in the process of national development. Among the problems and possible solutions that they deal with are: Inefficiency and callousness in public institutions and what we must do to make them more accountable How to fight corruption and injustice through the judicial system and the press How small acts of 'involvement'--like making one person functionally literate--can make a difference How to support or link up with existing non-government organizations or set up one ourselves. The author gives us inspiring profiles of ordinary people who have made a difference.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067088894X
• ISBN 13: 9780670888948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160