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In her meticulously researched, incisively observed and compellingly written book 'Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story", veteran journalist and writer Seema Sirohi offers perhaps the first of its kind chronicle of over three decades of tumultuous relations between the two democracies.
Starting from the twilight of the Cold War, the book captures the ever-changing dynamics between India and America, two democracies often hobbled by their own democratic impulses.

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