Chalta Hai India

Chalta Hai India
Author: Alpesh Patel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9388038681

India once commanded a massive 30 per cent share of the global GDP and led the world in most fields, but today the country sadly is a developing nation. People often attribute India's sluggish progress to the malaise called the Chalta Hai ('It's okay', 'Let it be') attitude, but not everyone agrees with that presupposition. Debates on the subject are often inconclusive and discomfiting questions remain unanswered. Are we really a Chalta Hai nation? Is Chalta Hai ingrained in our DNA or is it just a bad habit which can be easily exterminated? Will this attitude stop India from becoming a global power? Alpesh Patel delves into this quirky Indian approach and answers these questions by examining the country's pace of progress in fields such as education, infrastructure, films and sports since Independence. The book revisits our cultural, ideological and political history over three millennia to trace the roots of the Chalta Hai attitude of Indians. Interesting facts and unsettling inferences force the reader to introspect and awaken him to the need for an urgent action. Finally, the book charts out methods and suggestions on how to get rid of the Chalta Hai attitude and take India closer to the dream of becoming a developed nation.

Chalta Hai India

Chalta Hai India
Author: Alpesh Patel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9789388038676

India once commanded a massive 30 per cent share of the global GDP and led the world in most fields, but today the country sadly is a developing nation. People often attribute India's sluggish progress to the malaise called the Chalta Hai ('It's okay', 'Let it be') attitude, but not everyone agrees with that presupposition. Debates on the subject are often inconclusive and discomfiting questions remain unanswered. Are we really a Chalta Haination? Is Chalta Hai ingrained in our DNA or is it just a bad habit which can be easily exterminated? Will this attitude stop India from becoming a global power? Alpesh Patel delves into this quirky Indian approach and answers these questions by examining the country's pace of progress in fields such as education, infrastructure, films and sports since Independence. The book revisits our cultural, ideological and political history over three millennia to trace the roots of the Chalta Hai attitude of Indians. Interesting facts and unsettling inferences force the reader to introspect and awaken him to the need for an urgent action. Finally, the book charts out methods and suggestions on how to get rid of the Chalta Hai attitude and take India closer to the dream of becoming a developed nation.

Chalta Hai India

Chalta Hai India
Author: Alpesh Patel (Business mentor)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018
Genre: East Indians
ISBN: 9789388038669

The Indian Conservative

The Indian Conservative
Author: Jaithirth Rao
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Hinduism and politics
ISBN: 9789393986849

Lively, eloquent and provocative, this is a book that will stimulate much thought, discussion and debate as it challenges the dogmas of the left and the extreme right and raises the key issues that engage India today.

Provisional Authority

Provisional Authority
Author: Beatrice Jauregui
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 022640370X

This ethnography of everyday policing practices in Lucknow, a major Indian metropolis, demonstrates how police authority and its assumed afflictions are refracted through a multi-dimensional field of social relationships in which power positions and moral boundaries are continually contested and shifting. This field generates among police what legal anthropologist Beatrice Jauregui calls provisional authority, a fractured and contingent form of capability and subjectivity that is not always immediately visible or comprehensible. Provisional authority may provide a social good, but with questionable and transmutable efficacy or legitimacy. Drawing on scholarship from anthropology, legal history, sociology, and political theory, Jauregui considers prevalent problems like routinized corruption, bureaucratized cronyism, evidence fabrication and extralegal violence among police as expressions of strategic adaptation and often a sincere if failing attempt to perform what officers themselves consider real police work in the face of interference, incapacity, disaffection and fragmented knowledge. This analysis of the fraught nature of police authority in India pushes contemporary theories of state power, legality and legitimacy, and postcolonialism and decolonization in different and provocative directions, opening new vistas for understanding policing as a global historical practice hybridizing local, statist, and transnational modes of producing and performing authority and order. Provisional Authority offers an innovative and challenging read of classical and contemporary theories of the postcolonial state, and an incisive perspective on public order in relation to police authority as co-configured by practice and subjectivity."

Mad(e) In India

Mad(e) In India
Author: Tarika Roy
Publisher: Om Books International
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2021-09-25
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9385609963

Mad(e) In India is a frank and funny exploration of India and Indians. With disarming wit, this book explores Indianness and its many facets—who we are as a people and a nation, our quirks, superstitions, myriad gods and goddesses and holy men, our packed cities and streets, our obsession with film stars and filmy style, our jugaadu ways of solving all problems big and small, our diverse cuisines, cultural traditions and art forms, and the unity in diversity that bridges our superficial differences. The authors skillfully showcase the qualities that quintessentially make up the idea of India. Diverse and complex as India is, readers are sure to understand it better and delve into its warm and generous heart as they turn the pages. Written in a conversational style, generously spiced with humour and insight, and interspersed with a rich variety of Indian phrases, this book is an entertaining and light-hearted read.

In India: Everything is Sunshine and Rainbows!

In India: Everything is Sunshine and Rainbows!
Author: Anushray Singh
Publisher: Zorba Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9387456145

Why do Indians lack social etiquettes and civic sense? Why foreign tourists find their Indian experience bittersweet? Why do our Film and Television industry the epitome of mediocrity? Why do Indians take offense at almost everything? Why do our politicians, bureaucrats, police, and justice departments contribute to a skewed and a corrupt system? Why do core Indian problems like poverty, hunger, overpopulation, and illiteracy get superseded by religion, patriotism and blissful ignorance? In a country, that is fast approaching the mark of, the largest population in the world, has somehow convinced herself and her citizens that everything around them is sunshine and rainbow. You see poverty, hunger, corruption, crime, injustice and brutality all around yet few feel the need to call a spade a spade. India is a country with immense diversity, rich tradition,and a unique culture. This book is a collection of essays under three different section and discusses issues of religion, politics, people, culture, traditions, films, problems etc. The book talks constructively about various issues concerning India; it can evoke an incredulous gasp from an outsider and an empathetic nod from a fellow Indian. The book points out issues that affect India and need the reader’s attention, jokes around and becomes serious when it needs to be. The book showcases the viewpoint of a country’s young population that is largest in the world and wants to show that constructive criticism is what this country needs to fulfill her moral and philosophical growth potential.

Implosion

Implosion
Author: John Elliott
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2014-03-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9350297361

The Great India Story by a respected international journalistSince independence in 1947, India has muddled through, turning confusion and adversity into varying degrees of success. From his experience and perspective as both a business and political correspondent, John Elliott examines how this came to be. At a time when there is a widespread clamour for change and for a new form of politics, he looks at how corruption has eaten into all aspects of Indian life and questions the decades of rule by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, and suggests democracy provides a smokescreen for much that is wrong. He explores the impact of liberalization, traces the build-up of social unrest over corruption, women's rights, and the exploitation of land and the poor. He also reflects on the limitations of a hesitant foreign policy and looks in detail at why India's defence forces are so depleted.At the heart of the problem, he argues, is the 'quick fix' attitude known as 'jugaad' and the laissez faire acceptance of 'chalta hai' that together have eaten into the social and political fabric and heavily influence what India is, and is not, today. He uncovers a secrets 'M document' that mapped out the 1991 reforms, and reveals how was an unwitting spectator at a Pakistan briefing meeting for the 1991 Kargil war.Incisive and ambitious in its attempt to gather together the many strands that make up a controversial India narrative, Implosion is a timely contribution to the debate on nationhood,development, the exercise of power, people's rights and the changing demographics of a country facing a Tryst with Reality.

The India I Dream of…

The India I Dream of…
Author: Vikrant Khanna,
Publisher: Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9380349793

How many of us complain about our country and believe nothing will ever change? How many of us crib about the dirt in this country but still litter openly? How many of us abuse our ministers and government but still never vote? Most of us, right? Harsh, Dev and Nikita are three such Indians. Until one fateful day………… What do the three of them do then? Keep quiet and sulk about it for the rest of their life, crib and complain and forget about it like they always do or fight for justice. They do none of the above. Instead they turn to facebook.com. But what they fighting for? Will we Indians ever care? Can the new age social networking tools really help? Will the country ever change or will the ‘chalta hai’ attitude prevail??? Come and be a part of the change………..

Metahuman

Metahuman
Author: Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0307338339

Is it possible to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness? Deepak Chopra says that higher consciousness is available here and now. “Metahuman helps us harvest peak experiences so we can see our truth and mold the universe’s chaos into a form that brings light to the world.”—Dr. Mehmet Oz, attending physician, New York–Presbyterian, Columbia University New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. How does one do this? By becoming metahuman. To be metahuman, however, isn’t science fiction and is certainly not about being a superhero. To be metahuman means to move past the limitation constructed by the mind and enter a new state of awareness where we have deliberate and concrete access to peak experiences that can transform people’s lives from the inside out. Humans do this naturally—to a point. For centuries the great artists, scientists, writers, and many so-called ordinary people have gone beyond the everyday physical world. But if we could channel these often bewildering experiences, what would happen? Chopra argues we would wake up to experiences that would blow open your body, mind, and soul. Metahuman invites the reader to walk the path here and now. Waking up, we learn, isn’t just about mindfulness or meditation. Waking up, to become metahuman, is to expand our consciousness in all that we think, say, and do. By going beyond, we liberate ourselves from old conditioning and all the mental constructs that underlie anxiety, tension, and ego-driven demands. Waking up allows life to make sense as never before. To make this as practical as possible, Chopra ends the book with a 31-day guide to becoming metahuman. Once you wake up, he writes, life becomes transformed, because pure consciousness—which is the field of all possibilities—dawns in your life. Only then does your infinite potential become your personal reality.