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Vengeance: India After the Assassination of Indira Gandhi
Part political travelogue, part autobiography, this book, by the only foreign correspondent permitted to file dispatches from the Punjab--the center of India's Sikh population after Indira Gandhi's assassination, provides richly detailed portraits of Indi
368 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1985
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September 23, 2020
This was an unassuming pick as the book is rarely available in the market now. How I got my copy is a different story altogether. When my grandfather left us couple of years back, I walked into his room full of books and picked this one as a memento. And thus, while unread, it was always a part of my own library. Till last week when I picked this and started reading. Came across so many handwritten notes and dates from my granddad, going back to 1993 (The book was originally published in 1985). So yes this copy is precious.
Coming to this book in particular, it is an extremely thorough walk through of India after Indira Gandhi, by Mr Pranav Gupte. The book chronicles author’s journey across the subcontinent, searching for the answer to the most important question hanging like mythological Trishanku - “What will happen to India, after Indira?”. While Mrs Gandhi was assassinated, arguably in retaliation to the June 1984’s Operation Bluestar, every individual reacted differently. Some felt at loss and some indifferent. Some felt it was destiny and some sniffed conspiracy. But everyone knew that India had turned a corner and Rajiv Gandhi’s mettle is going to be put to test.
The book chronicles the following months extremely well and delves deeper into Emergency, Society, Press, Bureaucracy, Civil Services, Politics, Regional turbulences, Communalism, Casteism, Foreign Currency draught et al. It is a good compendium of the history as it unfolded rather than a look-back and that gives it a sense of objectivity, rare these days.
I would strongly recommend more people to read this as to form a well-informed opinion about the politics of 1980s and not get caught into the flurry of misinformed conjectures.
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Coming to this book in particular, it is an extremely thorough walk through of India after Indira Gandhi, by Mr Pranav Gupte. The book chronicles author’s journey across the subcontinent, searching for the answer to the most important question hanging like mythological Trishanku - “What will happen to India, after Indira?”. While Mrs Gandhi was assassinated, arguably in retaliation to the June 1984’s Operation Bluestar, every individual reacted differently. Some felt at loss and some indifferent. Some felt it was destiny and some sniffed conspiracy. But everyone knew that India had turned a corner and Rajiv Gandhi’s mettle is going to be put to test.
The book chronicles the following months extremely well and delves deeper into Emergency, Society, Press, Bureaucracy, Civil Services, Politics, Regional turbulences, Communalism, Casteism, Foreign Currency draught et al. It is a good compendium of the history as it unfolded rather than a look-back and that gives it a sense of objectivity, rare these days.
I would strongly recommend more people to read this as to form a well-informed opinion about the politics of 1980s and not get caught into the flurry of misinformed conjectures.
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March 26, 2022
The best continuation after the Soul of India
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