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Name of the bear - India Grows at Night by Gurucharan Das I havent read any of the two Gurucharans previous makes. Besides, this is the first book I will be reviewing for Developmental frugals. The title of the Book single caught my attention for two reasons. First it reminded me of the famous speech by Jawaharlal Nehru At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. His speech sl residualerly depicted the reality as India only started to develop at night. Second, it gave me many sort of insight of what I might come across in this book. Its more of a narratement which leads us towards the realness of our country. He begins the first chapter with the example of Haryana and Gurgaon. The unexpected rise of the neglected and underdeveloped Gurgaon in becoming a Millennium City and the surrender of a ambitious planned city Faridabad, later even struggling to capture up with Indias first wave of modernization. It was discussed ho w private players took charge in Gurgaon- which arose without an telling utter whilst Faridabad with a proper functioning state, withered. Indian model was discussed which was contrary than the rest of the world as India got democracy before capitalism. By the end of this chapter, das speaks about the shortcoming of the state and how to move from the private triumph and public failure in put in to become a boffo nation. In the next chapter he talks about the Anna Hazares private road and how a weak government was shaken to its core by a strong society. Delay in implementation of projects like POSCO which had been caught in the weathervane of red tape for 5 years. He also mentioned how 168 projects of Coal India had been awaiting dynamic headroom which led to powe... .... In the last section he concludes by bragging(a) suggestions on what should be done and redefines the definition of a Strong state and mention that a state is required to grow - no number how many ine fficiencies it may have, he writes a weak state is go bad than no state at all. This book is a glorious piece by Gurucharan Das, which talks about Indias impressive economic rise despite the presence or rather the absence of a state. With its narrative approach it is easy for readers to understand. Das takes you on a pilgrimage beyond 1900 and gives a glimpse of our past and present in order to understand the lacunae that India is facing. The part I disliked is he stressed a lot more in explaining the relevance of a strong state. nevertheless this book attempts to show us a path which could help the state deal with governance shortfall effectively.Nishant Sharma Radio stream