{"product_id":"9780008442798_tinderbox-the-unpredictable-rise-and-uncertain-future-of-modern-india","title":"Tinderbox: The Unpredictable Rise and Uncertain Future of Modern India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA devastating critique of India’s failure to fulfil its founding promises.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince claiming independence from the British Empire in 1947, India has dramatically changed its nature and its place on the world stage. Today, it is common knowledge that the country glitters with formidable potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia is the largest democracy in the world and it has the third-most billionaires after the US and China. It is predicted it will have the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, the largest middle class by 2033 and the third biggest navy by 2035. India boasts a raft of savvy English-speaking academics and business-leaders, an army of talented software engineers and a youthful population buzzing with ideas and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut can all that India has promised – to itself and the wider world – come to fruition?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTinderbox\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e columnist Sadanand Dhume takes a hard look at the country’s progress and potential, bringing together a view of politics, history, economic thinking and social attitudes. Dhume points to why the economic progress of India is stuttering, with a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the desires of its technocrats and its politicians; he shows how democracy is fraying, Hindu nationalism cutting away at the nation’s fabled pluralism; and he accounts for the country’s continuing paradox of astonishing contradictions, what with its record-numbers of billionaires and mass poverty, its technological advances but overall lack of access to electricity and clean water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn short, it’s time to revisit the view that India’s growth and progress will continue at its prophesied pace. And it’s time to overturn the widespread assumption that a familiar India will remain familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sadanand Dhume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285262712981,"sku":"9780008442798","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008442798.jpg?v=1776992350","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008442798_tinderbox-the-unpredictable-rise-and-uncertain-future-of-modern-india","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}