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Jugalbandi
Made for each other
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Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati’s Jugalbandi provides this backstory to his current dominance in Indian politics. It begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism as a response to British-induced elections in the 1920s, moves on to the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, and ends with its first national government, from 1998 to 2004. And it follows this journey through the entangled lives of its founding jugalbandi: Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani.
Over their six-decade-long relationship, Vajpayee and Advani worked as a team despite differences in personality and beliefs. What kept them together was fraternal love and professional synergy, of course, but also, above all, an ideology that stressed on unity. Their partnership explains what the BJP before Modi was, and why it won.
In supporting roles are a cast of characters-from the warden’s wife who made room for Vajpayee in her family to the billionaire grandson of Pakistan’s founder who happened to be a major early funder of the BJP. Based on private papers, party documents, newspapers and over two hundred interviews, this is a must-read for those interested in the ideology that now rules India.
Speakers
Vinay Sitapati
Vinay Sitapati teaches at Ashoka University. Half-Lion (2016), his acclaimed biography of PV Narasimha Rao, has been published in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and in the United States. He has degrees from National Law School Bangalore and Harvard University, as well as a PhD from Princeton University. He is currently working on his second book, a history of the BJP before Modi.
Manish Sabharwal
Manish is currently the Chairman and co-founder of Teamlease Services, India’s largest staffing and human capital firm. Teamlease has over 95,000 employees in 1800 cities and is implementing India’s first vocational university in Gujarat and first national PPP apprenticeship program.
In 1996 he co-founded India Life, an HR outsourcing company that was acquired by Hewitt associates in 2002. Consequently he was CEO of Hewitt Outsourcing (Asia) in Singapore.
Manish serves on various state and central government committees on education, employment and employability and is a columnist for the Indian Express and Economic Times. He got his MBA from The Wharton School in 1996 and is an alumni of Shriram College, Delhi and Mayo College, Ajmer.
