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“India Towards 100: A Call for Reset? Require a Missionary Zeal”, beyond examining the challenges that India faces and proposing several “breakthrough moves” the nation must undertake, reflects at a fundamental level upon several critical issues our civilization must address; and in turn offers a few path-finding guidelines that in unison could influence a more enlightened global economic dynamic. It is our hope this book will guide current and future leaders of nations both in developed and developing environments to reset the dynamics of socio-economic progress. The author argues that the new dynamics for the advancement of civilization should be based on: (i) the fusion of ancient philosophies, underscoring the importance of enriching the planet’s natural and human (with the divine conscience at work within) capital that must transcend conventional debates on the location of the power of resource allocation (market versus government) towards debates that focus on how best to orchestrate the forces of self-expression and self-determination of communities in harmony with nature, (ii) reimagining the discipline of economics as more “biological and relational,” as opposed to mechanistic and transactional, such that policymakers consider shifting their attention from ‘financial engineering’ towards ‘human or social engineering,’ (iii) a strategic approach that nations must embrace by consciously instilling a “central economic nervous system” that dynamically links the vision of a nation with strategic priorities and grassroots programs that are inclusive and globally competitive, and (iv) the enhanced “fluidity of global IQ” across borders, such that it complements the “liquidity of capital” through the strategic application of Artificial Intelligence/5G — not by making humans redundant, but by making them more empowered so that society as a whole is more productive and enlightened, enabling an active network among “economic cells” or what the author calls “cellularism” – beyond capitalism and socialism Accordingly, the book envisions an alternative socioeconomic model that India should consider developing. It celebrates the fundamental principles of Vedic philosophy, enables a village- centric cellular economic dynamic and adopts a strategic approach in developing a globally competitive economy. The book envisions that the nation in the next 25 years to build a socioeconomic dynamic by its 100th anniversary of its independence, which is programed to pave a road that India could take in the second half of the 21st century, similar to the experience of Japan in the second half of the 20th century.