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India takes pride in enabling its citizens to cast a vote quinquennially. But Indian democracy, argues Senior Journalist Arvind Bhandari, is distressingly flawed, being based on institutionalized corruption and rule by minority vote. A thematic strand running through this vibrant book, which commences with a comprehensive and thought-provoking introduction, is that India has more failed than succeeded as a newly emerging nation. The author contends that India's ...
These are the memoirs of a journalist. Arvind Bhandari takes the reader through the vicissitudes of his eventful and adventurous life, unfolding a story that is at once interesting and evocative, rumbustious and thought-provoking. Whereas autobiographies generally do not tell more than 75 percent of the truth, Arvind Bhandari claims to have been courageous enough to speak the truth 90 percent. As a result, the narrative is spiced with romantic interludes, bawdy ...