Thinkers 50: Business Thought Leaders from India: The Best Ideas on Innovation, Management, Strategy, and Leadership

Introduction

       This is indeed India; the land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of a thousand nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition. . . .

Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

India is an enigma wrapped in ancient mysteries, a fast-growing modern economic powerhouse with perennial and deep-rooted problems, a success story laced with tragedy.

The first impression of India is ...