Shashi Tharoor’s “The Elephant, the Tiger, & the Cell Phone”
The Elephant, the Tiger, & the Cell Phone India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, fast-changing society. This book shows how and why. In his previous book, India, Shashi Tharoor, one of Indias most respected writers and diplomats, traced Indias history from late colonial times through its first 50 years of independence. In his new book on the subject, he describes the vast changes that have recently taken place to turn this once sleeping giant into one of the world leaders in the realms of science and technology, a country that now boasts a middle class of over 300000000 people—as large as the entire population of the United States. Dividing the work into five parts—politics, economy, culture, society, and sports—he analyzes and discusses, in his usual lucid prose, all the pros and cons of this rapidly evolving world. Artfully combining hard facts and statistics with personal opinions and observations, Tharoor offers a fresh, insightful look at the worlds second largest country.
July 19th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
please get rid of ‘lunatickerala’ from kerala, he is a dangerous idiot. you tube should stop him writing comments.
July 19th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Tharoor is good in giving eloquent speeches and has a cheerful, charming smile to take people onto his side. But that is not enough to remove the pot holes of TVM. His vision of making TVM a global city is a joke. Not even basic civic amenities like water and electricity, sewage overflowing, garbage everywhere, mallus peeing on walls, spitting everywhere, honking proudly and still shouting the 100% literacy mantra. Hypocrite lunatics. Chennai stole TVM airport. Where is Tharoor?