The book contains evocative details of Rao's failures in preventing two of the ugliest incidents of social disharmony in independent India - the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition and the 1984 Sikh riots
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HALF LION How P V Narasimha Rao Transformed India Vinay Sitapathi Penguin 391 pages; Rs 699 "Do we live in an economy or a society?" My friend Manish Sabharwal, chairman of TeamLease Services, first asked me this question seven years ago. I was reminded of this conversation immediately after I finished reading the utterly delightful Half Lion, Vinay Sitapati's 400-page biography of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. Perhaps inadvertently, the book sets up themes and frameworks for the reader to judge Rao's legacy: Economy versus Society; the Tolstoy school, ...
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