TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shashi Tharoor
TI  - The elephant, the tiger, and the cell phone: Reflections on India, in the 21st-Century 
SN  - 0670081450
U1  - 954.053 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - USA
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - India -- Civilization -- 21st century
N1  - 	
Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tharoor, one of the subcontinent's most respected writers and diplomats, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its dazzling diversity of languages, customs, and cultures remains-more than sixty years after its founding-the world's largest democracy. He describes the vast changes that have transformed this once sleeping giant into a world leader in science and technology, a nation once poverty-stricken that now boasts a middle class of over 300 million people-as large as the entire population
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