oose Pages has a phenomenal cast of characters: a chief minister found hanging from a noose inside his official residence, a former President, several serving or retired chief justices of the country’s highest court, some of the country’s best-known businesspersons, well-recognised faces from the bureaucracy, the media and the higher judiciary. It also includes some of the most important and influential persons in India, past and present: the Prime Minister, besides chief ministers, members of Parliament and political personalities of varying ideological hues.