Globalised India and Development Issues

Globalisation as a process has touched the market, polity, and society of India in more than one way. It has charmed and sneaked into our drawing room, bedroom and even our toilets in a such a way that now we love it better, hate it better and gel with it better. It has become in separable from our collective mind and psyche. Whether it is the societal ethics, cultural basics, economic dynamics or nuances of politics nothing has remained un affected. In a word, it has become a hot potato which we can not hold it long nor let it go. Its dictats and dynamics have become irreversible and irrevocable. In such a situation, the best course of action is not how to break it rather how to make it more humane. Thus the present time is a trying time that goes begging for alternative approaches to adopt and adapt globalization from below and make India a safe and secured place to live in. Since the culmination of Uruguay Round of GATT and birth of WTO, the world has been enamored with \'top down\' theories and practices with expectations that the nectar of globalization would trickle down and percolate to the last layer of the societal pyramid. But both the process and project of globalization from the top has seriously betrayed all expectations. While a miniscule of India has been shining, the majority of it is whining and crawling at the periphery of so called global existence. The under belly of globalization has been badly exposed and \'state\' that has been relegated to the back ground, is again being appealed to come to the fore. With such realities staring us, it is high time to declare enough is enough and this far and no further. Now instead -of being dazzled at the glare of pseudo sophisticacy of globalization, we have to set our priorities right with the real issues of development that includes all and excludes none. This edited volume is an honest attempt to stitch together some of the differential approaches to the issues of development in the so called Globalised India.