P. V. Narasimha Rao vs the Nehru-Gandhi Family

by Sanjaya Baru

Genres: Nonfiction

19 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2016

About the author

Sanjaya Baru is an Indian political commentator and policy analyst, currently serving as Director for Geo-Economics and Strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Previously he had served as associate editor at The Economic Times and The Times of India, and then chief editor at Business Standard. His father B. P. R. Vithal served as Finance and Planning Secretary during former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's stint as Secretary of Finance. Before he became a journalist, he was a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) when he was a student at University of Hyderabad. He became Manmohan Singh's media advisor and chief spokesperson, a role in which he served from May 2004 until August 2008. In April 2014, Penguin India published The Accidental Prime Minister, Baru's tell-all memoir about his time at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). In it, Baru alleges that the prime minister was completely subservient to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who wielded significant influence in the running of the Singh administration, including the PMO itself. The book has sparked off a controversy, with the PMO officially denouncing it as "fiction". Baru, however, has said that he set out to show an empathetic portrait of the prime minister.

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Reviews

[Srinivas Chirravuri]

100% Accurate!

A good short read on the Gandhi family insecurities and how they perpetuated a dynasty on this country! It is quite shameful to even think of this family as humans!!!

[Suresh Patel]

Must read on the PM who was instrumental in economic liberalisation

A must read book was able to read the excerpts of the book as available in KU and was impressed by PVN and his stature and the contribution to India in freeing up the economy in the 90’s.

Being an Author and an Advocate sharing the review from a readers perspective.

[Diwakar Grandhi]

More like a 3.5. Not too in-depth. Pretty quick read.

[John Michael]

Good extract from the book worth reading.

Good extract from the book worth reading. The concluding pages are so beautifully written and are unputdownable... ... ... ...

[KUMAR RAKESH SINGH]

Excellent inputs on contemporary politics

What I have read in in the print media, same has been written here by Mr. Baru
Thanks a lot

[Pallavi Tangirala]

Okayish

The flow wasn't clear for me as a reader and felt that it was touching upon too many things at once.

[Vishwanath]

A quick read of half an hour (read in Kindle and don't even know how small or big the book looks), narrates very very briefly how an assuming man broke the backbone of a family ruled party organization by assuming party leadership apart from also steering the nation through its worst crises like BoP, external affairs due to soviet collapse and changing the destiny of the nation forever.... I think the book, while being reverential to PV, as the author's dad had worked with PV as his advisor, looks all too brief.. Nevertheless, a tribute to the most underrated PM