TY - BOOK AU - Aakar Patel TI - PRICE OF THE MODI YEARS SN - 9780143463764 U1 - 954.0533 PY - 2023////01/01 CY - USA PB - Vintage KW - India Economic policy 21st century KW - India Social policy 21st century KW - History KW - Modī, Narendra, 1950- KW - Social policy N1 - Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the political scenario. In Price of the Modi Years, he seeks to explain the data and facts on India's performance under Narendra Modi.Modi's predecessor, Manmohan Singh, had once said that Modi would be a disaster as prime minister. This book shows how. It concedes Modi's popularity; this is an accounting of the damage he has wrought. It is the history of India since 2014, assessing the damage across the polity from the economy, national security, federalism, foreign relations, legislations and the judiciary to media and civil society.Our memories are not long, news cycles are transient and incidents are forgotten or misclassified as being only episodic, unless documented, unified and placed together as a record. And, therefore, this book-a history of these present times ER -