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The Indian President: An Insider’s Account of the Zail Singh Years (1982-87)
Author: K C Singh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 312
Price: Rs 699
It is common now for political commentators to remark on the similarities between Indira Gandhi’s style of functioning and the current regime. But what often passes without comment is that both Mrs Gandhi and Narendra Modi also have the same approach to appointing Presidents. As K C Singh points out in this informative and extremely readable book, The Indian President: An Insider’s Account of the Zail Singh Years (1982-87), Presidents were never intended to be rubber stamps or mere ceremonial figures.
