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In India Rising Ravi Velloor leans towards the politician's view and picks the general election of 2004 and the subsequent theatre that went into the choice of Manmohan Singh as prime minister to weave into his book

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee  August 23, 2016 Last Updated at 21:15 IST

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INDIA RISING Ravi Velloor Konark Publishers 361 pages; Rs 566 Would the euphoric sporting moments created by P V Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar at the Rio Olympics encapsulate the India development story or would the results of any of the seminal general elections like 2004 or 2014 fulfil that purpose? Obviously, neither would be adequate in themselves. What these disparate episodes would do instead is provide interesting vignettes that would form part of a narrative about the nation. Political leaders, for instance, have a habit of viewing their dates with elections as pivotal ...

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Plain tales from the UPA