Book description
'I was taught to take everything I could by any means possible without
feeling any sense of remorse, and that coloured the way I saw the world,
a world where the strong stomp on everyone below them and doing good is
for the naïve. I had been accidentally groomed to meet the requirements
of the economic miracle that hit India in the early nineties, where the
needs of the individual finally began to be addressed and seen as
important, even necessary. Capitalism started seeping into our very
marrow and socialistic gangrene seeped away, having only found a place
in history as a well-intentioned failure. Nehru's dream was finally dead
and I think I helped deliver its death knell...' In the heart of
Lutyens' Delhi - as politicians, power-brokers, media moguls, and
bureaucrats go peaceably about their business of amassing unlimited
personal wealth, occasionally getting ensnared in their own webs of
scandal and sleaze - the President of India, an ex-army chief, throws
everyone into shock by defying his rubber-stamp status and threatening
to establish military rule. Only Jasjit Sidhu, his sometime son-in-law,
erstwhile corporate banker and money launderer, and newly returned to
India as personal financial adviser to Prime Minister Paresh Yadav, can
bring him to heel. Brilliantly plotted and bitingly written, Delhi
Durbar is an astute and gripping political novel, in which the
outrageous twists and turns of the empowered corrupt and their fiercely
self-serving agendas makes for a political thriller of a uniquely Indian
flavour. Krishan Partap Singh was born in Chandigarh in 1976. As a
diplomat's son he spent his childhood in Cairo New York and Ankara
finally completing his schooling from Modern School Barakhamba Road New
Delhi. He then attended the Stern School of Business at New York
University after which he worked for Merrill Lynch in Dubai. He lives in
New Delhi.
