Ashish Chauhan

Thought leaders from twenty diverse fields, ranging from politics, economics and foreign policy to health care and energy predict what 2030 looks like for India and how the nation will evolve in this decade. Editor Gautam Chikermane masterfully weaves together essays from Abhijit Iyer Mitra, Ajay Shah, Amish Tripathi, Amrita Narlikar, Bibek Debroy, David Frawley, Devdip Ganguli, Justice B N Srikirshna, Kirit Parikh, Manish Sabherwal, Monika Halan, Parth Shah, R.A. Mashelkar, Rajesh Parikh, Ram Madhav, Reuben Abraham, Samir Saran, Sandipan Deb and Vikram Sood into a single volume that looks towards India's future. A handbook for citizens, a road map for policymakers and a guide for scholars, this book captures the many aspects of a future that will culminate in India becoming the world's third-largest economy and a regional power before the decade gets over.

Banking is about making profits and spirituality is about giving. Rajita Kulkarni Bagga has managed to grow successfully in both these seemingly opposite aspects of her life. Her close association with one of the most renowned spiritual masters of our time, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, brought her in touch with world leaders, presented her with incredible opportunities, and also placed new challenges on her path. She even came within perilous touching distance of armed terrorists on a killing spree, during the 26/11 attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. Her book forces you to ponder if there is a force that orchestrates the events in our life and whether the way we respond to situations changes our destiny. Now, as one of India’s highly respected women educators, she asks, 'What is The Unknown Edge that separates the mystical from the mundane, the life-transforming from the life-threatening and the ethereal from the earthly'?