If this book is a reimagining of India, it would be rather more from the imagination of a Bhagwati than from a Sen. Being a McKinsey presentation, it could hardly be otherwise. But, contrary to what one might at first assume, it is not some kind of white paper produced by McKinsey’s consultants; it is a collection of essays by thought leaders from a variety of fields, from Bill Gates to Mukesh Ambani, Fareed Zakaria to Ruchir Sharma, Stephen Cohen to Patrick French, Ramachandra Guha to Ashutosh Varshney, Suketu Mehta to Harsha Bhogle. (There’s even a Rajat Gupta among the authors but, in a weird coincidence, he turns out to be a young director at McKinsey’s Mumbai office.) The book is, therefore, a lavish buffet of opinions and ideas, and one often cannot decide which of the sixty chapters one wants to open next. It is also, of course, a testimony to McKinsey’s clout that they managed to round up such a constellation of luminaries for this project.