Abhijith Nayak

“Don't judge a book by its cover” - I always took it to mean that good covers can be bad books. But with this book, a terrible title and a boring cover hide a hard hitting, practical book.

Excellent pieces, all of them, except the fawning, almost sycophantic, last piece by Vir Sanghwi and Bhandare

The editing, in the Indian black and white edition, is terrible. You'll still be able to gather a few pointers but it seems like no one even bothered to proofread the book, and the fonts and typography are a strain on the eye.

A short read, slightly pedagogic but clarifies the difference between what constitutes a nation, a territory, an ethnicity, a state and a government