By Ramachandra Guha

'Inside each pondering there's a Gandhian and a Marxist suffering for supremacy', says Ramachandra Guha within the establishing sentence of this splendidly readable publication of principles, critiques and reflections. a considerable component of the publication expands in this salvo: it analyses Gandhians and psuedo-Gandhians, Marxists and anti-Marxists, Nehruvians and anti-secularists, democrats and Stalinists, scientists and historians, environmentalists and cricketers - in brief all those that contain the highbrow lifetime of considering Indians this day.

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