Click to play videoNew Delhi: Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is considered one of the country’s success stories but now he has taken on a new role as an author, who's Imagining India, focusing on the key issues the country needs to address.
“Basically I believe these four things -- notion of primary education, urbanisation, infrastructure and single markets are what i call ideas that we have agreed upon but not implemented,” says author Nandan Nilekani.
At his book launch in the Capital on Monday evening, Nilekani had a power-packed audience including Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Nilekani's Imagining India, is easily Penguin India's biggest non-fiction book release this year.
“It’s difficult to give you exact numbers but I’m looking at least 50,000 before the end of the year in hard-cover,” says Editor-in-chief, Penguin Books India, Ravi Singh.
And it's part of a larger trend, publishers say.
“Non-fiction has in fact become big in last 4-5 years, Ram Guha, Dalrymple, Pagvan Varmas books have done really well and that trend will continue. Next year we have Narayan Murthy, Gurcharan Das, KR Narayanan,” adds Ravi Singh.
This however certainly seems to be a distinguished company and has something for readers to look forward to.
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