Strictly Personal

In 2004, Manmohan Singh became prime minister of India. Over the next ten years he led the country through opportunities and challenges, not without some controversy. But this is not that story. This is the story of what went before, and it is told by his daughter Daman Singh. Based on conversations with her parents and hours spent in libraries and archives, this honest and affectionate memoir provides new insights into the former prime minister, his wife and their three daughters, Upinder, Daman and Amrit.

Daman Singh graduated in mathematics from St Stephen's College, Delhi, in 1984. She went to the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, for further studies and worked in the field of rural development for twenty years. In 1996, she wrote The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram. Since then she has written two novels: Nine by Nine (2008) and The Sacred Grove (2010).