Elephant The Tiger And The Cell Phone, , The Travellers Bookstore, Melbourne, Australia

India: The emerging 21st Century power. Over the past 25yeats, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative fast changing society. In his new book, UN Under Secretary General, Shashi Tharoor, surverys the vast changes that have recently taken place to turn this once sleeping giant into one of the world's leaders in the realms of scienc and technology - a country that now boasts a middle class of 300,000,000 people. Dvided into five sections: politics, culture, society ans sport, Tharoor analyses and discusses the pros and cos of a rapidly evolving world. Artfullyy combinging hard facts with personal opinions and observations, he offers a fresh and insightful look at the wrold's second largest economy.