The Paradoxical Prime Minister The Paradoxical Prime Minister The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India is a 2018 Non-fiction book written by a senior leader of the Indian National Congress Shashi Tharoor, about the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. The book was released just a few months before the upcoming Indian general election, 2019 by fellow party members Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, Arun Shourie from BJP, Pavan Varma a sitting MP and NDA ally. In the book, Tharoor examines and questions the tenure of the Modi government. He said that his criticism are based on "facts and figures" along with examples.
South Asian foreign policy of the Narendra Modi government with his Nepalese counterpart in Kathmandu where two sides inked 10 agreements and memorandum of understanding including important ones regarding power trade and transmission. Once again Modi urged Nepalese law makers to adhere the January 2015 dateline for Constitution writing on the basis of consensus to accommodate views of all sections of people but this time his comments were received with mixed responses. The Nepali daily "Kantipur" on its editorial remarked that Narendra Modi breached diplomatic "Lanshman rekha" (red line) by calling it an interference in Nepal's internal mater although the English daily "The Kathmandu Post" described it as a