Crossword – India’s leading lifestyle bookstore, hosted the
launch of The Accidental Prime Minister by Sanjaya Baru at their
Kemps Corner outlet today. The author was joined by Rama Bijapurkar as
they discuss about the book, Indian politics and more.
About the book:
The Accidental Prime Minister is Baru’s
account of what it was like to ‘manage’ public opinion for Singh while giving
us a riveting look at Indian politics as it happened behind the scenes. As
Singh’s spin doctor and trusted aide for four years, Baru observed up close
Singh’s often troubled relations with his ministers, his cautious equation with
Sonia Gandhi and how he handled the big crises from managing the Left to
pushing through the nuclear deal. In this book he tells all and draws for the
first time a revelatory picture of what it was like for Singh to work in a
government that had two centres of power.
Insightful, acute and packed with
political gossip, The Accidental Prime Minister is one of the great insider
accounts of Indian political life and a superb portrait of the Manmohan Singh
era.
About the Author:
Sanjaya Baru was chief editor of the Financial
Express and Business Standard. He is currently director for geo-economics and
strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
About
Crossword:
Crossword, with Eighty
Eight, across Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Chennai,
Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kota, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai,
Nagpur, Nasik, Pune, Siliguri, Udaipur, Vapi, Vadodara,Vijayawada, Cohin and
Raipur. It is India’s fastest growing chain of bookstores & has pioneered the lifestyle bookstore concept in
India. Crossword was ranked the 6th most admired retailer in India by Business
world for the year 2006; it was the only book retailer in the top 10. Crossword
won the Reid & Taylor Award for Best Retailer of the year – Leisure &
Specialty at the India Retail Summit 2005 & 2007& 2009. It also won the
Star Retailer Award for the Best Lifestyle Retailer in Books & Music in
2011. Crossword won the Retailer of the Year Award - Leisure (Books, Music and
Gifts Category) at the Images Retail Awards 2005 & 2007& 2009.
Crossword won the Debutant E tailer of the year - books - at India eRetail
Awards 2012. Crossword received the Federation of Indian Publishers Award for
excellence in Publishing for the year 2004 on 18th June 2005 at the hands of
Shri Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development. In 2013 Crossword
also won The ET Retail Award for Marketing for ‘Crossword Popular Award’.
Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is a wholly owned
subsidiary Company of Shopper’s Stop Ltd – India’s leading department store chain.
The Holding Company inter-alia also acts as a Master Franchisee of the Company.
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