This book indicts the Vajpayee government for failing its promise of effecting fundamental change. More than so-called compulsions of coalition politics, the author holds the real reason to be a lack of conviction on the part of Vajpayee and his colleagues. Theirs was a mandate for a change of regime, and not merely of government but the first-ever Indian Right-wing formation in power failed to alter the grammar of politics and the idiom of public discourse. This is a damning critique of both the Indian Right and Vajpayee and his men from a conservative perspective, both meaty and readable.
