Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born on the day Mahatma Gandhi was elected the Congress president for the first and the last time on December 25, 1924. But unlike most of his peers, the young Atal didn't think highly of the man who made a movement out of the Congress, which, before he took the helm … Continue reading The Making of ‘The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox’
The Untold Vajpayee
The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox (Penguin Viking)
Publisher: Penguin Viking Release date: 25 December 2016 Buy the book on Amazon. (It is also available in Hindi and Marathi). Despite his grand ‘secular’ statements in Parliament that bordered on the Nehruvian, Atal Bihari Vajpayee has often taken brief excursions into the hardline camp. In 1983, he made an incendiary speech during the Assam elections in which the … Continue reading The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox (Penguin Viking)
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