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It reads so easily. Like an evening boat ride on the calm currents of Ganga.

A novel in verse never ceases to amaze me. As if surfing the waves of a story wasn't enough pleasure, you get to do so with rhythm and rhyme. Much grateful to the toiling writers who attempt such works!

Moehringer is too good a (ghost)writer

It's slightly exasperating to see the biographer go out of his way to ensure that the subject of the biography is sufficiently belittled. Still, it's an informative read on the history of the ideology that rules the roost today. The latest chapter covered Syama Prasad Mookerjee, and now I finally see him as a historical individual with substance rather than just a political symbol.

Took it up in the way of procrastination, now struggling to put it back down.

It's a lovely book!

Looks promising

I have unwittingly walked into a full-blown academic e-lafda, and I'm ready with my popcorn

Hyperbole be excused, finishing this book feels as momentous as graduating from college, if merely because both took roughly the same amount of time.

The tendency of the Indian democracy to handsomely reward its greatest villains is uncanny. You enacted emergency? Become the PM again. Sikh massacre? Take 400+ seats. Muslim progrom? What even is PM, just be our god.

If only we were a feminist nation, IndiraG wouldn't have been robbed so blatantly of the credit of being the OG Indian villain by lightweights like Gabbar and Mogambo.

I would have finished this book by now had it counted as four books in goodreads stats.

I appreciate how each chapter is complete in itself, wrapping up whatever strand it starts. You can read one, be content, and get on with your life. No cliffhanger or cheap tricks to disturb the reader's peace.

It's like shayari in this sense where each individual sher is 'muqammal' in itself.