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Superpower?: The Amazing Race Between China's Hare And India's Tortoise (2010)

by Raghav Bahl(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1591843960 (ISBN13: 9781591843962)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Portfolio Hardcover

review 1: A classic example of marketing success. He owns a media hub and did a great deal of publicity through it. It sucked me in as well... Compared to the other books that I've read, this was really not a good one. Just a lot of table well kept out in text format, if you ask me. Maybe it taught me something that was worth being taught. But there are a lot of other authors in the market who make lesser amount of noise about their book and who write a lot better. It took me a lot of determination to finish the book. Got kind of bored with the language that he employs.
review 2: I think the book is wrongly marked. It does compare the Indian (Turtle) and Chinese (Hare) economies in quite a bit, complete past, present and future aspiration but is unfortunately heavily pre... morejudiced towards India rising and presenting China about to collapse any moment. The book is very well researched but very well crafted to present India as a better option for foreign investors. I think the author is plagued with the common Indian disease of self-glorification which I have noticed in quite a few Indians. But what he fails to present in this crafty book is the fact that India is coming out of a very long stretch of colonialism while China has not been similarly afflicted. Which for me that leadership will be always an issue because the confidence is not just there. Therefore I agree to disagree with the author that India is well placed to achieve a Super Power status as compared to China, only because its failure to deal effectively with poverty. China has not only done a far better job at looking after its poor but also invested very heavily into its infrastructure which places it very nicely on a launching pad to a great success. The book still makes very interesting reading as it provides rich information about the backgrounds and strategies adopted by China and India over the years to progress in public sectors like energy, educations etc. Just be careful of the author's tilt towards India, which for me was very obvious and biased. less

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