India, Sept. 14 -- Manoj Kumar Jha does it yet again - pens a book that is a must read for anybody who wants to understand the labyrinth of Indian democracy - an apt commentary on Indian politics and the issues that plague it. Jha does justice to all the hats he wears - academician, politician, thinker, and an orator of rare eloquence, in and out of Parliament. His latest work, In Praise of Coalition Politics and Other Essays on Indian Democracy. The book breaks the notion that coalition is not good for democracy, especially when 'one nation one election' is being propagated and nation is being led towards the 'one nation one party' system.

The writer unequivocally pins the myth that coalition government is unstable. "It is a myth that c...