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Letter to BS: 'The Promise of India' review suffers from personal views

The author of 'The Promise of India' responds to a review of the book published in Business Standard

Letter to BS: 'The Promise of India' review suffers from personal views
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As the reviewer of my book is a friend whatever I have to say to trash his review (Facts about India's PMs, August 27) I will tell him in private. 

First the expression Nehru-Gandhi dynasty used by the reviewer. I have railed against this hyphenation and the loss of memory about Lal Bahadur Shastri at several places in the book. Nehru and Indira Gandhi were as different as day and night particularly in the way she promoted one son to be PM and then another. 

About the anti-Sikh riots, on page 124 the book mentions the names of others who held office
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