I have a review of Arun Shourie’s book in the latest edition of Pragati. I had titled it “The Parliamentary Kleptocracy”, but Nitin changed it to “First Past the Post”. It starts:

When India celebrates the diamond jubilee of its independence, it will have as its president a person who, when she was running a bank, took money from women depositors, distributed most of it to her relatives as loans and, according to the RBI, did pretty much nothing to recover the money, thereby causing the demise of the bank. This fact will be celebrated as a victor for women. To understand how India managed to accept a person in the Rashtrapati Bhavan who in any mature democracy would be in jail for fraud, it is important to read Arun Shourie’s latest book.

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