Democracy on the Road Audiobook (Free)

On the eve of a landmark general election, Ruchir Sharma offers an unrivalled portrait of how India and its democracy work, drawn from his two decades on the road running after election campaigns across every main state, travelling the exact carbon copy of a lap around the planet earth. Democracy on the Road takes readers on a rollicking ride with Ruchir and his merry band of fellow writers as they talk to farmers, shopkeepers and CEOs from Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu, and interview leaders from Narendra Modi to Rahul Gandhi.

No book has tracked the arc of contemporary India by taking visitors so near the action. Giving an intimate view in the lives and minds of India’s political giants and its people, Sharma explains how the complicated forces of family, caste and community, economics and development, money and problem, Bollywood and Godmen, possess conspired to elect and topple Indian leaders since Indira Gandhi. The eventually stimulating message of Ruchir’s moves is usually that, while democracy is definitely retreating in many parts of the globe, it is growing in India.