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Is India ready for superpower status? Or are we irretrievably behindin the game of catch-up with China?In his career as a journalist and one of India s top entrepreneurs, RaghavBahl has often faced a barrage of questions from visiting business people bewildered by India: Why are Indian regulations so weak and confusing?Why is your foreign investment policy so restrictive? How is it that youspeak such good English? Inevitably, the questions are followed by theobservation: But, you know, that s not the way it is in China.Indeed, even as the two economies are together projected to dominatethe world, there is a palpable difference in the way China and India workon the ground. China is spectacularly effective in building infrastructureand is currently investing almost half its GDP. Meanwhile, India is a promising economy: more than half its GDP is consumed by its billion-plus population; half its population is younger than twenty-five, giving it aunique demographic advantage; 350 million Indians understand English,making it the largest English-using country in the worldIn the race to superpower status, who is likely to breast the tape China share or India s tortoise?For anyone looking to understand China and India and the ways in whichthese two nations are about to change the history of the world, this is thebook to read.

About the Author

Raghav Bahl is founder and editor of Network18 as well as publisher ofForbes India. He has been instrumental in crafting successful joint ventureswith key media giants and won the prestigious Sanskriti Award for journalismin 1994. Behl was hailed as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the WorldEconomic Forum and selected by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Yearfor Business Transformation in 2007. This is his first book.