My Impressions – Mandate: Will of the People
Mandate: Will of the People by Vir Sanghvi, one of India’s respected journalist, began its life as a television series, called Mandate With Destiny. The motivation to write this book is Vir Shanghvi’s discovery of, during his travels for the TV series, lack of awareness amongst educated Indians on emergency or Punjab insurgency; in general, a lack of awareness of India’s political journey that has shaped today’s India. The book is a distilled version of the TV series (Note: I am yet to see all the episodes of the TV series). This book is a journalist’s observations along with his personal prejudices about events, leaders & their actions. Amish Tripathi, a best seller author, writes the foreword; a very nice note of his learnings of the economic parameter. The book…