Sometime in May this year I had found a copy of 'The Dismantling of India' by TJS George on a WhatsApp group of a second-hand bookseller. I've read some column 'Point of View' of TJS George here and there, and found them to be sharp and biting, mostly about politics and politicians. But I haven't found his columns all at one place.
TJS George passed away last October, and in the obituary I read that is column had run uninterrupted for twenty-five years in The New Indian Express but I did not know there was a book about some of his columns. Last Sunday at Abids I was lucky and found a copy of 'The First Refuge of Scoundrels: Politics in Modern India' by TJS George, a collection of several of his columns neatly arranged under eight sections. I got this hardcover copy for eighty rupees, and I plan to read one column a day regularly till I finish the book.
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