The book presents the best of well-known journalist and media person, Shekhar Gupta’s column, ‘National Interest’, that for the last eighteen years has been one of the foremost news and current affairs column in Indian journalism. The selections here are informed by three decades of formidable reporting and explain, interpret and seek to provoke changes at the political and social levels. They question use of power and politics and examine the conditions of cities, religious identities and people’s loyalties. The book mainly analyses the success and failures of major political personalities from the BJP, Congress and other parties. It comments on the forces that have deepened Indian federalism and constitutionalism, the communal agenda in politics, the performance of governments and the socialist stance.
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