India and its market are highly complex and even the native people face challenges in understanding it; leave aside the foreigners. India is a highly heterogeneous country with marked differences in everything, including business. It is quite usual for people to get perplexed and puzzled by the diversity of India and the variations existing in its market. A proper understanding of the history, culture, and society of a country is a pre-requisite for achieving success in doing business in that country. This book provides you with a broad overview of India and the Indian market with a lot of on-ground practical information. This book is meant for entrepreneurs and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who want to do business in India. It will be of great use to the foreign entrepreneurs and SMEs who want to do business in India and also the Indian entrepreneurs and SMEs who want to expand to the national level from the local or regional level. This book will also be of interest to those who have good local or regional knowledge about India but want to know more about India at the national level. They will discover some lesser-known aspects of the Indian market and will come to know about many new things which they never knew about India. This is among the best times to do business in India. Opportunities and possibilities exist in all areas and transitions are taking place fast. It’s high time that foreign as well as Indian entrepreneurs and SMEs explore this vast country and its market. The only requirement is to appreciate the uniqueness existing in the Indian market and act accordingly. About the Author: Dr. Prateek Jain is a Management and Strategy Professional with a work experience of more than 23 years. He has done his PhD from IIT Delhi, MBA from IIM Lucknow and BE from Mangalore University. He runs his own Consulting and Training organization, which works in the area of entrepreneurship and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Among other activities, his organization also facilitates business relations between Indian and foreign entrepreneurs and SMEs, and works with them with regards to India and do their hand-holding in the Indian market. He is based at Noida (Delhi NCR).

India and its market are highly complex and even the native people face challenges in understanding it; leave aside the foreigners. India is a highly heterogeneous country with marked differences in everything, including business. It is quite usual for people to get perplexed and puzzled by the diversity of India and the variations existing in its market. A proper understanding of the history, culture, and society of a country is a pre-requisite for achieving success in doing business in that country. This book provides you with a broad overview of India and the Indian market with a lot of on-ground practical information. This book is meant for entrepreneurs and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who want to do business in India. It will be of great use to the foreign entrepreneurs and SMEs who want to do business in India and also the Indian entrepreneurs and SMEs who want to expand to the national level from the local or regional level. This book will also be of interest to those who have good local or regional knowledge about India but want to know more about India at the national level. They will discover some lesser-known aspects of the Indian market and will come to know about many new things which they never knew about India. This is among the best times to do business in India. Opportunities and possibilities exist in all areas and transitions are taking place fast. It's high time that foreign as well as Indian entrepreneurs and SMEs explore this vast country and its market. The only requirement is to appreciate the uniqueness existing in the Indian market and act accordingly.

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Reimagining India brings together leading thinkers from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by one of the most important and least understood nations on earth. India’s abundance of life—vibrant, chaotic, and tumultuous—has long been its foremost asset. The nation’s rising economy and burgeoning middle class have earned India a place alongside China as one of the world’s two indispensable emerging markets. At the same time, India’s tech-savvy entrepreneurs and rapidly globalizing firms are upending key sectors of the world econ­omy. But what is India’s true potential? And what can be done to unlock it? McKinsey & Company has pulled in wisdom from many corners—social and cultural as well as eco­nomic and political—to launch a feisty debate about the future of Asia’s “other superpower.” Reimagining India features an all-star cast of contributors, including CNN’s Fareed Zakaria; Mukesh Ambani, CEO of India’s largest private conglomerate; Microsoft founder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; award-winning authors Suketu Mehta (Maximum City), Edward Luce (In Spite of the Gods), and Patrick French (India: A Portrait); Nandan Nilekani, Infosys cofounder and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; and a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign policy experts, jour­nalists, historians, and cultural luminaries. These essays explore topics like the strengths and weaknesses of India’s political system, growth prospects for India’s economy, the competitiveness of Indian firms, India’s rising international profile, and the rapid evolution of India’s culture. Over the next decade India has the opportunity to show the rest of the develop­ing world how open, democratic societies can achieve high growth and shared prosperity. Contributors offer creative strategies for seizing that opportunity. But they also offer a frank assessment of the risks that India’s social and political fractures will instead thwart progress, condemning hundreds of millions of people to enduring poverty. Reimagining India is a critical resource for read­ers seeking to understand how this vast and vital nation is changing—and how it promises to change the world around us.

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.

A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field. For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and fair elections to communication, infrastructure and the rule of law - technology can play an increasingly positive, revolutionary role. In India, for example, where many underprivileged citizens are invisible to the state, a unique national identity system is being implemented for the first time, which will help strengthen social security. And throughout the world, technology is essential in the transition to clean energy. This book, based on the authors' collective experiences working with government, argues that technology can reshape our lives, in both the developing and developed world, and shows how this can be achieved. Praise for Nandan Nilekani: 'A pioneer . . . one of India's most celebrated technology entrepreneurs' Financial Times 'There is a bracing optimism about Nilekani's analysis . . . which can only be welcome in this age of doom and gloom' Telegraph 'The Bill Gates of Bangalore . . . Nilekani achieves an impressive breadth' Time Nandan Nilekani is a software entrepreneur, Co-founder of Infosys Technologies, and the head of the Government of India's Technology Committee. He was named one of the '100 Most Influential People in the World' by TIME magazine and Forbes' 'Business Leader of the Year', and he is a member of the World Economic Forum Board. Viral B. Shah is a software expert who has created various systems for governments and businesses worldwide.

Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers, but what kind of power it wants to be remains a mystery. Our Time Has Come explains why India behaves the way it does, and the role it is likely to play globally as its prominence grows.