Deconstructing Nitish Kumar

Book review of The Battle for Bihar: Nitish Kumar and the Theatre of Power

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Nitish Kumar | Narendra Modi | Janata Dal (United)

Ajay Kumar 

This book holds a fact-filled and merciless, albeit empathetic, mirror into the soul of one of our interesting politicians — Nitish Kumar.

Arun Sinha’s 400-page book painstakingly draws out the many identities of his “very intimate friend” — they were batchmates in engineering college — and demonstrates how they have defined and damned Bihar’s chief minister, currently facing perhaps his most challenging political test. Nitish’s professed identity is of a “professional politician” acutely conscious of his social supremacy as ...

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First Published: Thu, October 15 2020. 01:41 IST
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