Given the elements of the book I found most relevant and interesting, I think an even more appropriate and hard-hitting title would have been “The Secession of Success”. Much of the book is about people leaving India in search of a better life abroad. But there is not any doubt—Sanjaya Baru does not have any either—that everything that made them successful, primarily their wealth but also their entrepreneurial talent, has given India the slip. While a sentimental idea of India is sometimes part of the celebration of this success, the reality of the nation has been left out of this convenient mutual synergy. India-in-India, meanwhile, remains a lower-middle-income country in spite of, or perhaps because of, the global flight of its talented, empowered, and wealthy.