The Lead: Ideas of tall Indian political leaders

In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, we discuss books on tall political leaders like India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, whose writings have been put together by Purushottam Agrawal in Who Is Bharat Mata? On History, Culture and the Idea of India: Writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru. We then move to the 80s which saw the rise of N T Rama Rao and how the actor-turned-politician built a new opposition party in Indira's India, in Ramesh Kandula's Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Rama Rao.

Ahmed Shariff: Hello and welcome to another episode of read of the week. Joining me today is my colleague L Subramani. Hi sir and welcome to the show.

L Subramani: Hi Ahmed. It's always wonderful to join you and talk about books. And as usual, we have a lot to discuss. So yeah, let's get on and talk about the book that you have been reading this week.

Ahmed: If you remember last week, I was a bit confused. I didn't know what should I pick up and what should I read. It was almost like I was in an anxiety mode, constantly thinking What... And then I remembered that last month I had ordered a book from Amazon...

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