In her meticulously researched, incisively observed and compellingly written book 'Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story", veteran journalist and writer Seema Sirohi offers perhaps the first of its kind chronicle of over three decades of tumultuous relations between the two democracies.<br />Starting from the twilight of the Cold War, the book captures the ever-changing dynamics between India and America, two democracies often hobbled by their own democratic impulses.