Sonia the Great?

Rani Singh thinks aam in aam admi refers to mangoes, and translates the phrase as “the skinny basket-carrying mango man”. She tells us that Rajiv Gandhi was “violently assassinated”. The Babri Masjid’s demolition is “carnage”. But despite howlers in two languages, she is to be complimented on her extensive homework and for sifting out, collating and highlighting nuggets of information that may have been well-known already but whose contextual presentation in 29 refreshingly brisk chapters recreates one of the most extraordinary personages of our time.

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