A China-India convergence story

The Silk Road Rediscovered: How Indian and Chinese Companies Are Becoming Globally Stronger by Winning in Each Other's Markets

By Anil K Gupta, Girija Pande and Haiyan Wang

Published by Jossey-Bass (A Wiley Brand), 2014; Hardcover; 269 pages

Rating: A

WRITING on business in China and India is not easy, and not just because it runs up against the reams of literature - still growing in volume - on various aspects of the two countries and their comparative engagements.

The challenge lies in identifying details and complexities that characterise China and India. These frequently escape observers who, focused on the big picture, are preoccupied with facile questions of when in the foreseeable future will India's growth rate match that of China's, or how the "manufacturing" China strategically…