Single Man The Life & Times of Nitish Kumar of Bihar
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Sankarshan Thakur
HarperCollins india 324 pages, Rs 599
The writer draws on his many years of political reporting from Bihar to create an engaging portrait of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Among much else, Thakur details Kumar’s rise to power, his accomplishments as chief minister, and his relationships with the political parties and figures that have had a crucial bearing on his own trajectory—former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his RJD, and prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and the BJP. Thakur’s book is also a chronicle of the recent history of Bihar, and the changes it has seen under Kumar’s administration.
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