Juggernaut Publication India

This biography corrects many falsities and myths, and it is the only book you need to read about one of India’s greatest heroes.

He reveals how south India deals with a particularly tough set of issues – its triumphs in areas of health, education and economic growth are met with a policy regime that penalizes it; its success in population control will be met with a possible loss of political representation. How will the region manage such an assault?

Hard-hitting, troubling and full of fascinating data points, South vs North is an essential book about one of the biggest challenges that India faces today.

Tuticorin, in short, is like R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, plus aruvals and hooch. A young police officer with scarcely any knowledge of Tamil was in charge of the district in the 1980s.