When I bought this book I had high hopes. I thought it will be a work of scholarship and new insights/revelations will be made. Mr. Aakar Patel (the author) is a very well read and articulate person. However, this book was not able to go beyond the usual dump of Google search results.
Essentially, in the book, the author has simply done Google search after search (or something equivalent) and simply quoted articles presented in the press: mainstream and alternative. Needless to say some cherry picking of articles has been done. However, the book reeks of banality and simply reads as a collection of articles written on Mr. Modi, which are of questionable veracity. We have all heard tons of conspiracy theories -- however, writing them down without the weight of evidence and scholarship is a different matter. For a foreigner or somebody who is interested in current affairs in India yet has never watched the news will find some of the content new. However, for most people who are tuned in to TV, Twitter and print news, these are all old stories -- we have all heard many versions of them, and nobody is in a position to judge what is true and what is not. These are transformative times in a relatively young yet old nation and a work of scholarship with rigorous analysis and first-person interviews could have been produced. What we instead get is a collection of gossip. It reads more like a tabloid than a serious book. There are no unique insights, no original research, no interviews, and no new information (even citing unknown sources or friends of XYZ).
This is a worrying trend; even other books in this genre are of a very similar type where the authors simply writes a book on current affairs or military intelligence by Googling. Unless real authors collect real stories and provide unique scholarly insights, such books will never interest a discerning reader.
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