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Is India ready for superpower status or too much behind China to ever capture up? In his profession as you of India's leading journalists and internet marketers, Raghav Bahl has often confronted this question, and many more, from bewildered visitors.

• Why are Indian regulations so weak and challenging?
• Why is your international investment insurance plan so restrictive?
• How come your hotels are top notch, but the streets leading to them are so potholed?
• Why don't you lower your voice when you make fun of your politicians?
• Why can you control the price of oil and cable television?

Obviously there's a huge difference in how India and its arch-rival China work on the ground. China is spectacularly effective in building infrastructure and is now reinvesting almost half its GDP. In the meantime, India is still a "promising" economy: over fifty percent its GDP is used by its billion-plus people, yet India has some unique advantages: Half its society is under twenty-five, giving it a solid demographic advantage; 350 million Indians understand English, rendering it the major English-speaking country in the world; and it's the world's major democracy. Inside the contest to superpower status, who is much more likely to succeed: China's hare or India's tortoise? Bahl argues that the winner is probably not determined by who is committing more and growing faster today but by something more intangible: that has superior innovative skills and more entrepreneurial savvy. With insights into the two countries' histories, politics, economies and ethnicities, this well-written, completely documented, comprehensive profile of the contest to become another global superpower is a must for anyone looking to understand China, India and the continuing future of the world economy.