Mint newspaper’s Gulam Jeelani wrote a piece about my latest book Mad About Cuba: A Malayali Revisits the Revolution.

The article refers to this passage in my book:

Cubans are also inventive in their political messaging. Can you imagine that decades before the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi, India, came up with their election symbol of broom, Cuba already had their share of broom politics? Cuban politician Eduardo René Chibás, who founded the Orthodox Party in 1947, was vehemently opposed to the corruption rampant in Cuba and the American mafia treating the island as a haven. Not only did he extensively use radio to communicate with the people, but his supporters brandished brooms in processions to highlight his message of clean governance. Then came the era of Fidel Castro.

Read the full article in Mint