Well I am going to for exams so I won’t be her up till 3rd of August. So I live you with this book review. Hope you like it. If you don’t like history then you shouldn’t waste money on this. It is a candid collection of riveting news-story that brings alive the history of the Indian Subcontinent after partition. Kuldip Nayar an international journalist, political commentator and author packs this book with one of the greatest events which have shaped not only India but whole Indian Subcontinent. In a distinguished career which spans sixty years perhaps there could be any head of state in the subcontinent whose interview was not taken him.
In his book he describes that period of the Indian history which we will not find in our history books. With some dark secrets which have surrounded all the headlines of this time. Perhaps very few books have documented what this book tells us. From his vantage point at the fore front of every ground breaking news event in close proximity to and in close confidence of the people in power, Kuldip Nayar’s articles are all the more fascinating as they give us as first hand account of historic political events, along with personal insights into the motives and machinations that conspired to bring them about.
From personal encounters with Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru, and interviews with Mountbatten and Radcliffe, to the controversy surrounding Shatri’s death in Tashkent, the 1965 Indo-Pak war and its aftermath, the 1969 congress split, the liberation of Bangladesh, the imposition of the Emergency in India- Kuldip Nayar’s scoops are as much testament of times as they are of uncanny reporter’s gift for anticipating the news.
It is a booster to your vocabulary. It also has many suggestions for future journalists. This book also tells us a lot about the changing face of journalism in India and across the world.
In his book he describes that period of the Indian history which we will not find in our history books. With some dark secrets which have surrounded all the headlines of this time. Perhaps very few books have documented what this book tells us. From his vantage point at the fore front of every ground breaking news event in close proximity to and in close confidence of the people in power, Kuldip Nayar’s articles are all the more fascinating as they give us as first hand account of historic political events, along with personal insights into the motives and machinations that conspired to bring them about.
From personal encounters with Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru, and interviews with Mountbatten and Radcliffe, to the controversy surrounding Shatri’s death in Tashkent, the 1965 Indo-Pak war and its aftermath, the 1969 congress split, the liberation of Bangladesh, the imposition of the Emergency in India- Kuldip Nayar’s scoops are as much testament of times as they are of uncanny reporter’s gift for anticipating the news.
It is a booster to your vocabulary. It also has many suggestions for future journalists. This book also tells us a lot about the changing face of journalism in India and across the world.
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