Political scientist, journalist, lawyer
Vinay Sitapati teaches at Ashoka University and writes for The Indian Express. He has studied at National Law School Bangalore and Harvard University, and will be graduating with a Phd in politics from Princeton University this year (2016).
His biography of former Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was published by Penguin Random House in English. It is also being published by Emesco Books in Telugu and Oxford University Press in Hindi.
In this extract from his book, ‘Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India', Vinay Sitapati talks about the attributes that enabled Rao to manage the politics of reforms. His ability to assess the situation and play mouse, lion or fox—as need be—was Rao’s paramount political skill
Vinay Sitapati
Political scientist, journalist, lawyer
