India, Nov. 22 -- Nitish Kumar was sworn in as chief minister of Bihar for the tenth time on Thursday, following the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)'s sweeping victory in the recent assembly elections. In his book, Single Man: The Life and Times of Nitish Kumar, Bihar expert and editor, the late Sankarshan Thakur, carefully but thoroughly examines the political life of a man who very few had pegged for such success. Through Single Man, readers are familiarised with the context in which Kumar, then an engineering student, was baptised in politics. Many anecdotes - some recounted to Thakur by those privy to Kumar's earliest years in politics, some gleaned from the author's interviews with Kumar - tease out aspects of his political career (he had considered quitting politics after early electoral rejections) as well as the story of Bihar. Single Man is an important read as Bihar again yokes its future to a singular leader....