Nilekani’s much anticipated book, Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century will be launched on 24 November in New Delhi. Three days later it would be launched in his hometown Bangalore three days later. The book will then be launched in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad and the US in 2009.

Imaging India will also mark the debut of Penguin Books Ltd’s, non-fiction imprint Allen Lane. The lists of authors published under the label include economists Amartya Sen, Thomas Friedman and Joseph Stiglitz; journalist Malcolm Gladwell, American film-maker Michael Moore and biologist Richard Dawkins.

The book is divided into four parts, the first dwells on topics like globalization etc, the second on infrastructural challenges, third on conflicting political ideologies etc and the last section deals with democracy and technology, health, pensions and entitlements, the environment and energy.

It is interesting to know that the first 150-200 pages chart Indian history from the Indus Valley Civilization to British colonial rule to the present day. Penguin is betting big on this book. It is also believed that in the next nine months, the Allen Lane imprint’s line-up in India will include former presidents A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and K.R. Narayanan, Infosys co-founder and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy and author-activist Arundhati Roy.

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