INDIA IN THE AGE OF IDEAS: SELECT WRITINGS: 2006–2018

by Sanjeev Sanyal

  • Category Non-Fiction
  • Format Hardback
  • Imprint Rupa
  • Price 495
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  1. ISBN: 978-93-5702-243-9
  2. Pages: 336 pages
  3. Date: 5th June 2023

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Economist, environmentalist and urban theorist Sanjeev Sanyal brings the deftness of a polymath
to explore completely new ways to think about india and its place in the world.
The idea of constantly and organically updating one’s views/actions through feedback loops shows up
in many places in my writings. This derives directly from the view that the real world is fundamentally
unstable and unpredictable (i.e., it’s not a matter of having a better forecasting model). The best
response to such a world, therefore, is to have a good grasp of what is currently happening and to
respond quickly and flexibly to the evolving situation.
My worldview derives from many sources ranging from religious philosophy and long-range history,
to Chaos Theory and Network Theory—with many of them integrated under a broad CAS framework.
Some of the foreign writers and thinkers who have influenced me include Friedrich Hayek, Joseph
Schumpeter, Daniel Kahneman, Lee Kuan Yew, Nassim Taleb, Karl Popper, Charles Darwin, Sun
Tzu, Vidiadhar Naipaul and Jane Jacobs, to name a few.

The Indian influences are even more varied and range from ancient texts, such as the Ramayana,
the Mahabharata and Kautilya’s Arthashastra, to more modern thinkers, such as Swami Vivekananda
and Sri Aurobindo.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Sanjeev Sanyal is an internationally acclaimed economist and bestselling author. He is a Member
of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the G-20
Framework Working Group. Prior to joining the government, he was Global Strategist and Managing
Director at Deutsche Bank. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
in 2010.
Sanjeev is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. In 2007, he was awarded the
Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban dynamics. He was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford
University; Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore; and a Senior Fellow of the
World Wide Fund for Nature. In 2016, he served in the Future City Sub-Committee of the Singapore
government tasked with building a long-term vision for the city-state, and is currently a member
of the committee tasked with writing a new National Urban Policy for India.
Sanjeev went to Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, and Oxford University, where he was a
Rhodes Scholar. His bestselling books include Land of the Seven Rivers, Life over Two Beers and The
Ocean of Churn, and he has co-authored Iconic Indians: 75 Extraordinary Individuals Who Inspired
the Country with Rajesh Singh.

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