Implosion, India's Tryst with Reality [Epub] [StormRG]

Implosion: India's Tryst with Reality
Author: John Elliott
Published: 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
ISBN: 9789350297353
Format: Retail Epub
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India punches below its weight, failing to achieve what it could and should be doing. It has the vast potential of a population of over a billion people, abundant natural resources and an ancient culture, yet it constantly disappoints admirers and validates the views of critics. Most recently, with declining economic performance, poor governance and endemic corruption, people have begun to ask, ‘Why is India proving such a failure?’


Since independence in 1947, India has muddled through, turning confusion and adversity into varying degrees of success. From his experience and perspective as both a business and political correspondent, John Elliott examines how this came to be. At a time when there is a widespread clamour for change and for a new form of politics, he looks at how corruption has eaten into all aspects of Indian life and questions the decades of rule by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, and suggests democracy provides a smokescreen for much that is wrong. He explores the impact of liberalization, traces the build-up of social unrest over corruption, women’s rights, and the exploitation of land and the poor. He also reflects on the limitations of a hesitant foreign policy and looks in detail at why India’s defence forces are so depleted.

At the heart of the problem, he argues, is the ‘quick fix’ attitude known as ‘jugaad’ and the laissez faire acceptance of ‘chalta hai’ that together have eaten into the social and political fabric and heavily influence what India is, and is not, today. He uncovers a secret ‘M document’ that mapped out the 1991 reforms, and reveals how he was an unwitting spectator at a Pakistan briefing meeting for the 1991 Kargil war.

Incisive and ambitious in its attempt to gather together the many strands that make up a controversial India narrative, Implosion is a timely contribution to the debate on the exercise of power, people’s rights, development, and the changing demographics of a country facing a tryst with reality.