'Planet India is a worthy addition to the burgeoning shelf of serious books about 21st century India' SHASHI THAROOR, TIMES OF INDIA

India is everywhere - Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies, Indian software manages our health records and Indian customer service centres answer our calls. A country of English speakers and a free-market democracy, with the youngest population on Earth, India is not only the fastest growing market for the next new thing, but a source for the technological innovation that will drive the global economy.

In Planet India, Mira Kamdar offers a penetrating view of India and its cultural and economic impact on the world. She examines the challenges it faces while celebrating the tremendous vitality and opportunities this Asian democracy has to shape its own and all of our destinies.

'Mira manages to combine complex scientific analysis with simple stories and narrative so that they become understandable to readers. Her approach is also multi-dimensional - she is at once an artist, economist, a sociologist, an anthropologist and a political scientist' ATUL K. SHAH, ASIAN VOICE

'[Filled] with fascinating anecdotes and explores the business-to-business links that are connecting India with the world' SALIL TRIPATHI, NEW STATESMAN

*Kamdar is an engaging writer, who wishes to read in her experiences a message for mankind' RAMACHANDRA GUHA, FINANCIAL TIMES MAGAZINE