Abstract
This commentary was triggered by my reading a lecture delivered by Saurabh Kumar, a former student of mine at Indian Institute of Management, who later served as India’s ambassador in various countries and international bodies. He bemoaned that China had much greater status in global affairs than India. Many others in India hanker for a super power status for India. I find this concern to be somewhat misguided. India should be aiming to be a great civilization, rather than a domineering superpower. The record of all the superpowers till now has been quite spotty in humane terms. My vision for India is to rise through a winding and fragrant path to a peak of humane excellence through synergistic creativity, compassion, and competence.
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Khandwalla, Pradip
(2023)
"Whither India’s Development: Toward Being a Super Power or a Super Civilization?,"
Markets, Globalization & Development Review:
Vol. 8:
No.
2, Article 2.
DOI: 10.23860/MGDR-2023-08-02-02
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Author Bio
Pradip Khandwalla, born in India, has an MBA from Wharton School and a Ph.D. in Industrial Administration and Organization Theory from Carnegie-Mellon University, in USA. He taught at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and returned to India in 1975 to join Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) as faculty. At IIMA he held the L&T Chair in Organizational Behaviour and later served as Director of IIMA. His teaching and research interests have been in organization theory and the design and functioning of organizations; creativity and the management and social applications of creativity; effective public administration and democratic governance; and the design of civilizational excellence. For his work he has received three lifetime achievement awards.