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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone: Reflections on India in the
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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone: Reflections on India in the Twenty-First Century Hardcover - 2007

by Tharoor, Shashi

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New Delhi: Viking / Penguin, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bumping/ light chipping to the jacket top corners, little wear besides. Text is clean. 'For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then in the early 1990s the elephant seemed to wake up from its slumber and slowly begin to change - until today, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, some have begun to see it morphing into a tiger. As India turns sixty, [the author] reminds us of the paradox that is India, the elephant that is becoming a tiger: with the highest number of billionaires in Asia, it still has the largest number of people living amid poverty and neglect, and more children who have not seen the inside of a schoolroom than any other country. So what does the twenty-first century hold for India?' 387 pages..
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