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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, that was a painstaking read, but completely worth the effort. The book copiously fills the unforgivable lacunae created in our history text books by the most respectable Indian governments of yesteryear's, today, and the days to come. Though, in the beginning, I felt the author was simply hero-worshiping Jawaharlal Nehru, only further into the book did I actually realize the greatness of Nehru. Well, may be he is truly worthy ofhero-worship. This one, by Nehru, particularly impressed me: ‘I do not seem to remember men being reminded in the same manner of Ramachandra and Satyavan, and urged to behave like them. It is only the women who have to behave like Sita and Savitri; the men may behave as they like.’ And a few more interesting quotes from the book: ‘Forget the dead, count the votes, said Rustomji in a withering but not in accurate characterization of the p