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| Mar 20, 2008 5:06 am |
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re: Sindhis making news...... |
Pushpa Moorjani
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L K Advani
LK Advani's autobiography 'My Country My Life' was released with much fanfare on Wednesday at a high-profile function that virtually saw his launch as the NDA's prime ministerial candidate for the next round of parliamentary elections.
The over 1,000-page volume ‘My Country My Life’ covers all the major and minor events in the life of Advani, like his joining the RSS, trauma of Partition, meeting with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, days of the Jana Sangh, Emergency, Ayodhya, Rath Yatra, his stint in the government as Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Agra Summit, Kargil, Terrorism, Controversy surrounding Jinnah remark, and so on. The best part of the book is that Advani has taken the perspective of a participant, and not a historian, while writing it.
The evening saw Jaswant Singh putting up a strong defense in favor of Advani while enumerating his qualities of head and heart. "I believe Advaniji is the one of the most misread and misrepresented leaders in today's politics … He is far removed from being a breaker of mosques or any such thing," he asserted.
Recalling the evening of December 6, 1992, when the destruction of the Babri mosque had disturbed him, Singh said Advani called him up regretting that the "party which was leading the campaign had lost its sense of discipline". He described the book as a "path breaker" and a "valuable addition" to India's political and social history over the past several decades.
"… Mirrored in this book is the remarkable journey of a sensitive human being and an outstanding leader whose best, I hope, is yet to come," wrote former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who could not attend the function due to ill-health.
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