Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The sheer number of debts to acknowledge for a wide-ranging book like this is sobering.

Acknowledgments of this sort usually end with a personal reflection on family support. I feel obliged to reverse the order, and record my indebtedness to my wife, Ruhi, and my primary school-aged daughter and son, Simran and Rishi, who have had to endure my incessant travel, often at very short notice. Without their emotional support, this project, and much of my professional life, would simply not exist. The kids’ questions were innocent and typically most revealing about the kinds of things that needed to be clarified for the broad readership I hope to reach. Almost as important as this support was my parents’ and my sister’s unstinting belief ...