Ideas that have worked
Compiled by: Dept. of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances
Publisher: Viking Penguin India
Class No.: 338.900954 DEP
Accession No.: 011612
Year: 2004
Pages: 294 p.

Ideas That Have Worked brings together twenty fascinating and enlightening essays by some of India's leading industrialists, statesmen, bureaucrats and social workers about how they have overcome challenges and developed indigenous, innovative technologies that have paved the way for the nation's progress.

Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam talks about the challenges and success of India's space programme and identifies five mega projects that could transform the country into a developed nation, even as N.R. Narayana Murthy recounts how he and his team built Infosys Technologies into a world-class, Fortune 500 company. Ratan Tata describes the hard work and determination that went into designing and manufacturing the Indica, India's first indigenous car, while Mukesh Ambani elaborates on his dream of India assuming global leadership of the knowledge economy by 2005. Alok Sharma tells us about the two years that it took to organize the Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering on earth that brings together an estimated 20 million people on a single day, and Vilasarao Salunkhe describes the evolution of the Pani Panchayat, a landmark experiment in the area of water conservation which has transformed the lives of farmers living in drought-prone villages of Maharashtra.