Very little is known of the soft spoken and introvert prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Though, he has been in public image over three to four decades very little is truly known about him. Post reading the book the opinion does not change much either. I think the book exposes certain aspects of the Manmohan era in UPA-I. But there is a lot still not clear reading the book. There has been differences in Congress party president and PM, but nothing as explicit to be known to public. In some sense, the book only reaffirms a few of such thoughts that are generally known in the public arena. The author's intention on writing of the book is not clear. In many places it has appreciated the PMs achievements substantially while at places he has been quite critical. One cannot really form an opinion on a person merely from this book. The movie based on this book as claimed hasn't been very successful as well though there was a lot of hype around it. Rather conflicting interest of national administrative officers and their differences are far clearly outlined in the book.
I will still suggest one reads this book to realize an author's viewpoint of the period. But as a person handling PMO media management, I am not sure how far the author was aware of all the nitty-gritty official details of the PMO. So, there will be some skepticism there. Moreover, Dr. Singh, never endorsed the book nor even acknowledged its existence, thus kind of left the reader hang in the middle with nothing ratified. The coverage on the Nuclear deal is substantial and to some extent help one understand what was the scope of the deal.
Still will consider a good read.
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