Govind Bhattacharjee is a civil service officer currently working as Director General at the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India in New Delhi. During his more than three-decade-long service career, he has held many important positions in India and abroad. Bhattacharjee is a prolific writer on a wide variety of subjects ranging from physics to economics. He is a regular contributor to national newspapers and academic journals on current socio-economic and developmental issues. He has earlier published books on public finance and popular science, besides authoring a seminal work on the 11 special category states of India (Special Category States of India, 2016). His other areas of interest include public policy, developmental economics, international relations and federalism. Debasis Bhattacharya is an academician and currently a senior faculty member at Amity Business School, Amity University, Gurgaon. He is a member of the Centre for BRICS Studies, a Centre of Excellence in the university. Bhattacharya received his doctorate in political science from the University of Oregon, USA. He received his MA in international studies from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA, and MA in economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has 18 years of teaching and research experience in India and the USA. His interest areas include international political economy, international relations, international trade policy, international business, international diplomacy and international organisations.

Keeps the readers intrigued all through. The language is lucid and to the point…in upholding the virtues of GST, objectivity is diluted which is perhaps the most visible flaws of this book.

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