{"product_id":"india-in-a-new-key-9789355203281","title":"India In A New Key","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Narain D. Batra\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rupa Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On the morning of 15 August 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru, heir to Mahatma \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gandhi, the Buddha and the European Enlightenment, raised the Indian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort, the seventeenth-century palace \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, India was free to make experiments with \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the seven decades since Independence, the country gradually changed from \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nehru's democratic socialism to Narendra Modi's democratic entrepreneurial \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e digital India, dealing with its internal contradictions by playing the game of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e democracy and in the process becoming the sixth-largest global economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And with Chandrayaan exploring the Moon, a space nation was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e India overlooks the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean, abridging Southeast \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Asia with the Middle East. With its immense brainpower and young \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e demographics, India is geopolitically an indispensable nation. Indians play \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the game of democracy any which way they can: through massive elections; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e parliamentary debates and no-confidence motions; coalition forming and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e horse-trading; hartals, bandhs, dharnas, fast-unto-death; and finally, when \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e nothing works, they knock at the doors of the Supreme Court. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e India in a New Key attempts to offer an insight into questions like: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -How has India been experimenting with freedom to solve its socio-economic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e problems? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Can Modi-like Nehru-create a unified Indian consciousness?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rupa Publications","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45675105943703,"sku":"9789355203281","price":647.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789355203281.webp?v=1769295583","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/india-in-a-new-key-9789355203281","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}