5 Reasons to Read the Book ‘A New Political Ethos: Panacea for Robust Societies’ by Kanagiri SN Prasad
A New Political Ethos: Panacea for Robust Societies by Kanagiri SN Prasad is a great book if you are someone who loves to know about political parties of India, state and countrywide. This is highly informative book for students, competitive exams, and political commentators and for the citizen of India in the first place. This article aims to provide some reasons as why many should consider reading this book.
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Informative Introduction to Political Parties
As the book starts, the author provides first introduction to national and major domestic political parties of India. The book talks about BJP, Congress at a national level and from state’s point of view, we get to see information on major political parties of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, UP, and Maharashtra.
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Good Coverage on Politics of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
Though the book talks about multi-cultural political parties of India yet it covers a lot on political parties of undivided Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. You will get to know about parties and their performance and history. In fact one chapter is dedicated to all chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh. If you have heard about parties like TRS, TDP, YSR Congress Party — well they hail either from Andhra or Telangana.
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Highlighted Federal System and Good Governance
The book explores the rise and fall of all political parties, by doing that it directly explains us the governance aspect of political parties. The author further focuses as why federal system is needed for good governance and what a common man expects from the government. This type of coverage is given towards the end, after explaining the major points of all political parties.
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Easy to Read
The book is a work of author’s articles and columns published in many news papers over the time. He has added and blended more facts and stats to make it as one book. Be it anything, the book sounds like a book. You will not get feel as things are fragmented.
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Coverage on Basic and Introductory level Politics of India
A light read on the political parties of India. The book introduces all the political parties regional and national of India first, and later on it discusses their history, facts, stats, and performance. The book is well-composed and segmented accordingly. It is a good book for anyone interested in basic and introductory level politics of India. It is evident that the author has good presence in the print media. From this book, we got to know that he is a regular columnist in the political section. Anyway, the book further explains the role of political parties in federal and democracy. From introduction to people’s expectation to good governance, there is all for everyone. We recommend this book to college and schools, because the author is an academician and runs good education institutes.
