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Dumping a democrat in the Maldives

In solitary confinement for about two years during Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's 25-year-long dictatorship in the Maldives that ended with free and fair elections in late 2008, prisoner Mohammed Nasheed was given one book to read by a considerate jailor. It turned out to be Raj Thapar's “All These Years,” the story of a woman and her husband, Romesh Thapar, both very much part of the inner power circle around Indira Gandhi, and a sensitive chronicling of the denouement of that power structure.

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