Nehru the creation of India by Shashi Tharoor….
Let me answer the biggest question first!!…
No, I did not have to reach to my dictionary now and then to read this one!…I guess this one was before the vocabulary attack!…. Literally!!…..
Another perspective from a member of the same party trying to score some browny points while cleverly indicating a lot by saying very little!!…. That’s what is the book which though non fiction is fiction to a point of view of the man who himself is under a cloud of suspect nowadays!….
While freedom at midnight gave so much importance to Lord Mountbatten and while Azad’s autobiography gave it to himself and am sure while the hordes of books on the Mahatma give the onus to Gandhi, this one is Nehru everywhere!…
The clever manipulations by the father of the nation to give post to his protégé might have in effect given us a weak, temperamental, communistic and naive first leader of the country…… Imagine the strong Bose or the iron Patel as the more stronger alternates…… At this point it’s only a matter of have been and nothing else……
And how cleverly
Tharoor glides over the women in the pundit’s life giving ample space for imagination is why the book had to be written by Shashi….
Had picked up this one too see one more opinion if that would change mine….. About dynasty that is…. But safe to say that this one is nowhere close….
Read to know another view point though don’t expect it to change your point of view!!…… So exasperating!!!…..
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