Democracy on the Road:
A 25-year Journey through India
Ruchir Sharma
Penguin; Rs 699, 389 pages
Ruchir Sharma, a well-regarded economist and author of the bestselling Breakout Nations, returns with a book on a recurrent theme of his work as an international market analyst: summarising the impact that a change of guard in India has on the investment potential of the country.
In that role, Mr Sharma has been covering Indian elections since the 1990s, starting out from Delhi in his caravan with a number of journalists all of whom have come to occupy centre stage in mainstream media: Rajiv Shukla, Shekhar