I am averse to writing short reviews because they cannot give a detailed analysis of any subject. But at the same time, they are important because many readers just want to know the Ëssence" or "meat˜" of the book. They would like to know something about a book; perhaps just an introduction. In this context, Rajdeep Sardesai's book "2019: How Modi won India" is worth a few paragraphs.
In this context, Rajdeep Sardesai's latest book on politics"2019" How Modi won India" is worth a short review. Rajdeep is the son of famous Indian batsman Dilip Sardesai who I remember hit 2012 in the first test against the West Indies during the 1971 tour and laid the road for a victory in that series. Rajdeep did not take up cricket but has become a journalist and accepted a Padma Shri for his sycophancy of the Congress party during the UPA regime. Now he says he shouldn't have ACCEPTED IT BUT I AM AFRAID this is an afterthought after Modi swept the hustings.
Sardesai would like his opinions to be accepted under the banner of "objective reporting". But all along his concept of India is alien to what other countries practice to achieve greatness like say Russia or China or even the United States. He sees secularism in a narrow-minded way and equates it with placating the major minority. His vehemence against any reference to Godse shows that he is not aware of the 1947 happenings and the butchery that went on there.
In his entire book, one finds a veneer of trying to justify the defeat of Congress. He fails to realize that India has moved forward and an assertion by Hinduism in India is both natural and desirable. It is the same all over the world but Rajdeep sees it as something anti-secular.
The book is best set aside and not worth the price tag of Rs 699. His bias against Modi is apparent when on a TV program he gleefully commented on the break up of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance by stating "even my mother congratulated Uddhav."
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