Maximize Your Life: An Action Plan for the Indian Middle Class

by Pavan K. Varma

India is home to the largest middle class in the world. It is also the country with the largest number of the world's poor (over 600 million), where 290 million people can neither read nor write, and a child dies every three minutes of something as easily curable as diarrhoea. These are statistics that most middle-class Indians prefer to ignore, especially in post-liberation India.

145 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Pavan K. Varma is a former Indian Foreign Service officer and was an adviser to the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, with cabinet rank. With effect from June, 2014 he was a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) until July 2016. He is currently the National General Secretary and National Spokesman of the Janata Dal (United).

Varma is a graduate of St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi where he studied History (Honours) and received the first position. He was President of the St. Stephen’s College Debating Society as well as the star debater and elocutionist of the University of Delhi. He also won the Sir CP Ramaswamy Aiyar Memorial Essay Prize at St. Stephen’s. Subsequently, he acquired a degree in Law from the University of Delhi.

He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. His career as a diplomat has seen him serve in several locations, including New York and Moscow. In New York, he was with India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. His assignments in India include that of Press Secretary to the President of India, Spokesman in the Ministry of External Affairs, Joint Secretary for Africa and Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.

Reviews

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book from the author of "The Great Indian Middle Class". A check list if I would say to make the middle class to see and follow to make things right.