Preparing for 2024

Journalist Minhaz Merchant's book is a panoramic and sympathetic view of Narendra Modi's rise with some added nuggets of advice

Modi: The Challenge of 2024

Author: Minhaz Merchant

Publisher: Amaryllis Publications

Pages: 429 

Price: Rs 899

Newspaper editorials are devices through which newspaper editors — and owners, sometimes — tell the government what they think of it, frequently pointing out how they’ve got it all wrong. Sometimes they are obsequious, provoking L K Advani to observe that when asked to bend, they were ready to crawl. Sometimes they’re stinging, like the blank space some newspapers ran in the columns meant for editorials on June 28, 1975, in protest against the Emergency and press censorship.

Consider Minhaz Merchant’s book as a 429-page editorial in which he describes