Mira Kamdar, author of Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World, does an excellent job in tracing India's miraculous transformation from a developing country into a powerful global market force.

The book has been translated and published in Hindi, Italian, French, Chinese, Dutch and Portuguese. The author, a native of Seattle, is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute who has lived in India, Japan, France, and South Korea.

With such a background, Kamdar also offers insights into India's recent emergence as an economic giant. And so we find that the book covers the good, the bad, and the ugly as well as hope for India's future. The author maintains that India must chart its own path and create its own paradigm for progress rather than embracing the American system. She provides a bright and colorful panoramic view of India, warts and all, through the lens of an American with a global perspective.

By Gunjan Bagla
Author of Doing Business in 21st Century India

India isn't just a call center or somewhere far off and mystical anymore. Planet India shows the diversity of what India is today and reality how it will influence the rest of the world.

i left this book half way because i find it way too detailed and missing to show the bigger picture. I was expecting this book to be something which may explain things on a more macro level. more like why things are happening the way they are happening in india and not what all is happening india. For someone from india, its even less interesting as we know the current state of things in india, what we are trying to figure is how this all came to be and how are things looking 5-10 years down the line.

Great info on India. First hand observations by a knowledgeable author. Read her "Motiba's Tattoos" too. [ASIN:1891620584 Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past]] I thoroughly enjoyed Planet India and Motiba's Tattoo's. Terrific writer!

I have friends who immigrated from India, I read the Calcutta Times, and frankly, I looked forward to reading what Ms. Kamdar had to share about a culture that has always held my interest. Truly, the facts were enlightening. Perhaps if Ms. Kamdar had presented the information with a perspective sans a strident agenda, it would have been a wonderful book.

Sadly, the rhetoric of: the US is on the descent, [insert country here] is on the rise, and further, the US must give us more money to see that this trend continues, is overused and no longer meaningful. We are tired of it. We are tired of being insulted and told to hand over money in the same breath. It breaches common decency, and it strains friendships.