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Unfortunately for the millions of Indians, particularly its poor, Jawaharlal Nehru, despite his best intentions, remained grievously ineffective, unwittingly laying the foundations of India’s grinding poverty and misery, condemning it to be a third-rate, third-world country (detailed in the book foundation of misery, India 1947-64: blunders of the Nehrus era), sadly, Nehru’s dynasty reinforced those blighted foundations. The book covers the post-nehru period of that calamitous reinforcement. Part-reversal of those world’s-worst-economic-practices by the wise non-dynasts like Narasimha Rao and Vajpayee dramatically turned hopelessness into hope. However, with the return of the dynasts as upa-i and II and their Rollback to the bad-old-ways, it again turned into Gray cynical hopelessness. It is hoped that Narendra Modi would usher in a new era helping India emerge from its misery, and propel it forward into the ranks of the prosperous first-world.