It is for this reason that this Book is eminently readable for scholars intending to see History from a different lens often offered by textbooks and insider accounts and biographies in Contemporary Indian History

Ashish Gosain, PhD Scholar at Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences-1, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Journal of Scientometric Research

Moving from the personal to the general, examining issues of caste, religion, governance, education, science, culture and much else, Kumar comments on these contested themes through his lens of personal memories. He portrays contemporary India as a nation in a limbo, neither this nor that. Like the mythological king Trishanku, stuck between different worlds, it exists in a liminal space, antariksha, a suitable image for modern India(ns), plagued by the three Cs or monsters of corruption, casteism and communalism and the three heroic Ds, the forces of development, democracy and diversity...One puts this book down feeling somewhat overwhelmed by this portrayal of current challenges at both individual and collective levels.

Devapriya Sanyal, JNU, New Delhi, South Asia Research