The book sheds analytical light on caste riots in large parts of north Indian when VP Singh recklessly landed the country in a civil war situation to save high rickety regime. There is also focus on the 1992 demolition of the Babri masjid, the hateful campaign by outfits like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for erecting and abode for Rama and the Godhra out range, all scaned by an uncluttered mind. At another level, the volume bestows attention on forign policy since Nehru's time, defence strategy including nuclear nonproliferation and the politics of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the failure of leaders like Morarji Desai and Vishwanath Pratap Singh to run a non-Congress Government at the Centre, and India-Pakistan military conflicts from the 1965 infiltration of insurgents. The 1971 Bangladesh war and the Kargil back-stabbing are analysed in the light of low intensity conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.
