India is taking a “calculated risk” with the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister, Indian business leader and public intellectual Gurcharan Das told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.

International best-selling author and public intellectual Gurcharan Das speaks with Emory professor of religion Paul Courtright on the dramatic differences between India and China on all levels of society, politics, and economics.

"India is a bottom-up success, while China is a top-down success. India is a success of the people, despite the state; China is a success because of the state," says Das.

Gurcharan Das, world-renowned author, commentator, public intellectual and the former CEO of Procter & Gamble India, spoke at the Haas Business School about the economic future of India on October 24, 2013 as part of the Dean's Speaker Series.

NEW YORK, December 5, 2013 — In conversation with Jagdish Bhagwati and Vishakha Desai, commentator Gurcharan Das argues that pervasive corruption and threats to its secular traditions, not external forces, are the biggest challenges India faces at pre

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