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adithyavs's review against another edition
5.0
THE best book that I've read in Indian politics so far. This book, as the author mentions, is not a narrative of Indian politics, but a collection of articles. The best part of that is that you can understand the mood and the feel of the situation. The situation that the author describes comes alive out of the pages of the book. Be it the Anna Hazare movement or the UPA 2 time. The analysis of the author gives the feel of the popular mood at the time.
When you combine this narrative with our hindsight we get a clear picture of how things were. I would say that any book which is written would have a bit of prejudice from the author's ideological inclinations. This can be seen in any book and this can be seen here as well. But here as the author is giving a love narration rather than writing from hindsight the situation becomes bare for us to understand.
A brilliant book.
When you combine this narrative with our hindsight we get a clear picture of how things were. I would say that any book which is written would have a bit of prejudice from the author's ideological inclinations. This can be seen in any book and this can be seen here as well. But here as the author is giving a love narration rather than writing from hindsight the situation becomes bare for us to understand.
A brilliant book.
rkapil7's review
5.0
Shekhar is one pro-market and social liberal voice in Indian journalism. He consistently yearns to develop India both economically and socially and he finds the truth across different governments which many journalists fail to do so. This book of collection of his editorials from the time of Vajpayee govt to the onslaught of Modi could easily go into the textbook of history of Indian politics of that time frame. A must read.
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