It is difficult to discuss a book that you significantly disagree with when it is written by a friend whom you like and respect. But there is a positive side to this: Disclosing this increases transparency and credibility, which I hope will remain irrespective of what I say about and around his book on Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi, and their Congress-era socialism. The book is neither the first nor the last, in praise or criticism, on independent India’s first and thus far its longest serving political family.
