Summary of The Billionaire Raj. A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age by James Crabtree: Conversation Starters 12+

📖 The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age by James Crabtree: Conversation Starters Author James Crabtree paints a colorful portrait of the rise of the new billionaire class in India despite its radically unequal society. In The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age, Crabtree relays the facts about India. It is currently the world's largest democracy. It is the home to more than a billion people. Its economy is expanding in a faster rate than China's. However, the rewards of this great growth have not been shared evenly to its people. The top 1% of India owns almost 60% of the nation's wealth. In Mumbai, half of the population live in slums but a few dynasties enjoy extraordinary riches like America's Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. In The Billionaire Raj, James Crabtree brings the readers on a journey to meet the billionaires, tycoons, and the political power brokers. Tunku Varadarajan for The Wall Street Journal writes that Crabtree's book is "lively and...A Brief Look Inside:EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on.These questions can be used to...Create Hours of Conversation:• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups• Foster a deeper...