0. INDIA Snippets

1. And somehow all of this works ... well!
INDIA IS COMPLEX
India is huge
India is diverse
India has its extremes
So we are not going to be able to describe everything about India to you but we will tell you a few things....
India is very complex
It is huge
It is diverse
It hides extremes
It is both very old
... and very new
But somehow it all works... no one quite knows how but it does and you can make lots of money here....
So lets get started.
And somehow all of this works ... well!

2. IT IS A “SUB”-CONTINENT IN ITSELF
17% of the world’s population
Mumbai 17M
Delhi 15M
Australia 20M
Second largest Muslim
population in the world
Second largest road
and rail network in the world
Largest English speaking population
India is among the top 10 global suppliers of aluminium and steel in the world
India is amongst the largest producers of cotton
India is the largest consumer of gold jewellery in the world - about 20% of world consumption
India is the largest diamond cutting and polishing centre in the world
India is the largest producer of milk, pulses, sugarcane and tea in the world
India has the fifth largest electricity generation capacity in the world
India is the fifth largest telecom services market in the world; US$ 17.8 billion revenues in FY 2005
India has second largest road network in the world million km
India is the 2nd largest producer of wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables in the world
India has been ranked as the top destination for retailers in A T Kearney's Global Retail Development Index (GRDI)
India is one of the ten largest retail markets in the world
India has become the second-most attractive destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) among manufacturing investors, as per A T Kearney's latest FDI Confidence Index rankings
India is the leading destination for providing IT and IT Enabled Services (ITES)
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been ranked the third best technology universities in the world for 2005, as per Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)
There are about 1800 newspapers published in India and 5300 periodicals.
1,800 newspapers, 5,300 magazines
World’s largest democracy

4. And somehow all of this works ... well!
INDIA IS COMPLEX
India is huge
India is diverse
India has its extremes
So we are not going to be able to describe everything about India to you but we will tell you a few things....
India is very complex
It is huge
It is diverse
It hides extremes
It is both very old
... and very new
But somehow it all works... no one quite knows how but it does and you can make lots of money here....
So lets get started.
And somehow all of this works ... well!

5. Hindi Belt North Central West South East $419 $1,043 $789 $569 $325
$509
$949
$949
North
North
East
$325
$509
Hindi Belt
North
Central
$419
West
$569
But to make things somewhat simpler, think of India as 7 regions
There are states (Hindi Belt) which have 28% of India’s population but only 6% of India’s GDP, while there are states (North India) which have 8% of India’s population but 27% of India’s GDP
Now there are many languages that are spoken in India. So even Indians can’t get around India as easily… we need translators in many parts of the country
What people eat is different in different parts of the country... from tandoori to idlis, etc...
How they dress and look is different ...
They have different heros and in fact there are several different film industries within India
The people in the north look different, talk different, eat different, marry different, wear different clothes and see different films. They have different heros and sporting preferences than people in the south, or the east or the center etc. They do different jobs, and have different levels of income. They also have very different levels of education, health, etc.
In terms of terrain, the highest mountains, some great beaches, some tropical areas, deserts, great rivers, lakes, etc.....
$1,043
East
South
$789
Average GDP per capita for that particular region

6. Kashmiri Punjabi Hindi Rajasthani Assamese Gujarati Bengali Orriya
Marathi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telegu
Kannada
Orriya
Bengali
Assamese
But to make things somewhat simpler, think of India as 7 regions
There are states (Hindi Belt) which have 28% of India’s population but only 6% of India’s GDP, while there are states (North India) which have 8% of India’s population but 27% of India’s GDP
Now there are many languages that are spoken in India. So even Indians can’t get around India as easily… we need translators in many parts of the country
What people eat is different in different parts of the country... from tandoori to idlis, etc...
How they dress and look is different ...
They have different heros and in fact there are several different film industries within India
The people in the north look different, talk different, eat different, marry different, wear different clothes and see different films. They have different heros and sporting preferences than people in the south, or the east or the center etc. They do different jobs, and have different levels of income. They also have very different levels of education, health, etc.
In terms of terrain, the highest mountains, some great beaches, some tropical areas, deserts, great rivers, lakes, etc.....

10. Just take a look at a regular currency note
Just take a look at a regular currency note. It has information in 16 languages so that people can understand...
We have 140 TV channels of which more than 100 are local regional channels in different languages.
India has 8 major classical dance form with mainly 2 types of classical music – Hindustani & Carnatic
It has 1600 dailies in Local and English languages and architecture from all kinds and parts of the world
But there is one thing we dont have at all .... sportsmen. For all its size and diversity India has never won a gold in the Olympics outside of hockey and that too last in 1980.

12. And somehow all of this works ... well!
INDIA IS COMPLEX
India is huge
India is diverse
India has its extremes
So we are not going to be able to describe everything about India to you but we will tell you a few things....
India is very complex
It is huge
It is diverse
It hides extremes
It is both very old
... and very new
But somehow it all works... no one quite knows how but it does and you can make lots of money here....
So lets get started.
And somehow all of this works ... well!

13. INDIA AND ITS EXTREMES 23 billionaires in the Forbes list . . .
and 350M poor who earn less than $1 a day
Some of the best engineering schools in the world, producing 350,000 engineers and 800,000 MBAs every year . . .
while 35% of its population is illiterate
17,000 colleges and universities . . .
and 13 million children who do not attend schools
Largest production of wheat and rice in the world . . .
and 47% of children who are malnourished
India has extremes within its boundaries that would surprise anyone even if they were in one continent...
It has 23 billionaires in the Forbes list. 35% of the worlds poor i.e. more than 350 mn people who earn less than $1 a day...
India boasts of some of the best engineering schools in the world and some very good business schools. It produces 350 thousand engineers & 800 thousand MBA every year, and at the same time 35% of its population is illiterate. It has colleges and universities and the same time 13 million children do not attend schools
While India is one of the largest producer of wheat and rice in world, at the same time 47% of children are malnourished.
Its top 3 richest states have a average GDP per capita of $1500 and the bottom three have one of $260
It has 3 cities with more than 10 million people each and has 92,500 villages with less than 200 people each
GDP per capita of top 3 states of $1,
and that of the bottom 3 of $260
30 cities with more than 1 million people each . . .
and 92,500 villages with less than 200 people each

14. And somehow all of this works ... well!
INDIA IS COMPLEX
India is huge
India is diverse
India has its extremes
So we are not going to be able to describe everything about India to you but we will tell you a few things....
India is very complex
It is huge
It is diverse
It hides extremes
It is both very old
... and very new
But somehow it all works... no one quite knows how but it does and you can make lots of money here....
So lets get started.
And somehow all of this works ... well!

15. The world’s largest stable democracy inspite of having 50% illiterate people
The world’s 10 largest economy, likely to become the 4th largest by 2025
Growing at 8% pa for the last 3 years, second fastest growing large economy
Profitable market for MNCs, even more so than for local companies
Working confluence of all religions, cultures, races, castes, languages

16. SO LIFT THE VEIL AND TAKE A PEEK INTO INDIA