What the West Should Learn from India: Insights from a German Diplomat
The geopolitical coordinate system has long known only two axes: the East and the West. Increasingly, a new one is gaining prominence: the Global South, of which India is a crucial part. According to former German ambassador, Walter J. Lindner, India is everything that the West is not –young, dynamic and innovative. The world’s most populous country is being courted like no other as a gigantic sales market, a reservoir of skilled workers and an IT hub. Lindner knows India like few others. In his incisive new book, he discusses India from a Western perspective in a way that builds bridges – even as he does not shy away from critical observations. For instance, India’s democracy might not always conform to Western ideals, being shaped and challenged by the rise of Hindu nationalism, its caste system, pervasive poverty and violence against women.
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What the West Should Learn from India: Insights from a German Diplomat
The geopolitical coordinate system has long known only two axes: the East and the West. Increasingly, a new one is gaining prominence: the Global South, of which India is a crucial part. According to former German ambassador, Walter J. Lindner, India is everything that the West is not –young, dynamic and innovative. The world’s most populous country is being courted like no other as a gigantic sales market, a reservoir of skilled workers and an IT hub. Lindner knows India like few others. In his incisive new book, he discusses India from a Western perspective in a way that builds bridges – even as he does not shy away from critical observations. For instance, India’s democracy might not always conform to Western ideals, being shaped and challenged by the rise of Hindu nationalism, its caste system, pervasive poverty and violence against women.
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What the West Should Learn from India: Insights from a German Diplomat

What the West Should Learn from India: Insights from a German Diplomat

by Lindner
What the West Should Learn from India: Insights from a German Diplomat

What the West Should Learn from India: Insights from a German Diplomat

by Lindner

Overview

The geopolitical coordinate system has long known only two axes: the East and the West. Increasingly, a new one is gaining prominence: the Global South, of which India is a crucial part. According to former German ambassador, Walter J. Lindner, India is everything that the West is not –young, dynamic and innovative. The world’s most populous country is being courted like no other as a gigantic sales market, a reservoir of skilled workers and an IT hub. Lindner knows India like few others. In his incisive new book, he discusses India from a Western perspective in a way that builds bridges – even as he does not shy away from critical observations. For instance, India’s democracy might not always conform to Western ideals, being shaped and challenged by the rise of Hindu nationalism, its caste system, pervasive poverty and violence against women.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789353454609
Publisher: Juggernaut Publication
Publication date: 12/31/2024
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 8.82(w) x 6.02(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Walter J. Lindner, born in Munich in 1956, is a diplomat, musician, lawyer and author. He began his diplomatic career in Bonn, Ankara and Managua in 1988, after studying law and taking a four-year trip around the world.
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