Ruchir Sharma Interview with Sitaraman Shankar of DH

Over the last 20 years, Ruchir Sharma, investor and best-selling author of Democracy on the Road, The Rise and Fall of Nations and Breakout Nations has been on road trips across India during every major assembly and general election. He and his journalist friends come back from these trips with a good sense of what is happening on the ground, and with predictions of how the election will turn out. This year, Ruchir’s group went to Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. He shared his findings in a conversation with DH Editor Sitaraman Shankar.