When Siddhant Gokhale moved to India from the US 20 years ago, he didn't think much of the country's "Third World" image.
"I didn't think of India as a developing country," he tells the New York Times.
"I thought of India as a developing country."
And that's why Gokhale's new book, Scaling Up, is such a hit in India.
The book tells the story of how Gokhale, a social entrepreneur, met Pratabel Guerrero, a former World Bank official, at an event in New Delhi.
Together, they created the nonprofit Social Entrepreneurs of India, or SEWA, to help small businesses start and grow in poor areas of India.
Gokhale's book is "a call to action," Guerrero tells the Times.
"If you want to solve the problems of the world, you have to start with the problems of the world."
Gokhale's book is "a call to action," Guerrero says.
"If you want to solve the problems of the world, you have to start with the problems of the world."
Gokhale's book is "a call to action," Guerrero says.
"If we want to solve the world
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