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This book takes a rare, hard look at India’s leading public intellectuals whose greatness is taken for granted but whose sophistry is overlooked. Ravi Shanker Kapoor exposes them as cowardly thinkers incapable of challenging conventional wisdom. Importantly, it’s not the personal follies and foibles of these worthies that Kapoor finds troubling but their unquestioning acceptance of failed Leftist theories, and slavish adherence to politically “correct†...
Why did the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government prove to be such a comprehensive failure? Why did the Bharatiya Janata Party, the so-called "party with a difference" that promised to provide "a viable alternative", falter so badly once in power? Why after every scandal did the BJP leaders brazenly argue that "Congress did the same thing" and that "their scam was bigger than ours"? Failing the Promise probes such questions. The ...