02112nam a22002417a 4500 20231025145320.0 231021b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780670098859 AL eng 23 324.2092 SRINS Sugata Srinivasaraju 139340 Strange Burdens: The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi USA Vintage 2023 xxii,311p. HB 22x14cm. Management BLCR-000057 594.00 ₹ 699.00 15% 18-10-2023 Strange Burdens is not a biography but a book of political commentary. It examines and analyses Rahul Gandhi's ideas and leadership since he officially entered politics in March 2004. It journeys all the way to the conclusion of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on 30 January 2023 and captures the dilemmas of his disqualification a couple of months later. The narrative here crawls across two decades with the intention of understanding Rahul Gandhi's politics and predicaments, confusions and contradictions, triteness and triumph, as well as his burdens and benignity. It is not the purpose of this book to understand his failures and successes in tabular columns but speculate in the best traditions of political commentary why he is where he is, both politically and as an individual. The book does not seek to answer questions about his suitability or unsuitability for a public role but is rather focused on how he has been caught in the currents of history. It is not a myth-busting or myth-making exercise, nor is it an inquisition; it is a pursuit of political insight. Since the book is about Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party, it cannot not be about Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Examining one automatically illuminates the other. The book looks at the contrasts and convergence of the two personalities and the two parties they represent. Power Abdication 139137 Reconciliation 139138 Amnesia and Anachronism 139139 SRINIVASARAJU (Sugata) 139140 ddc BK 229004 229004 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAN AL AL 2023-10-21 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt Ltd Mangaluru 575001 594.00 1 324.2092 SRINS 076865 2023-11-23 00:00:00 2023-10-27 699.00 2023-10-21 BK