Death of atal bihari vajpayee biography book

Considering the pivotal figure he has been in the political evolution of independent India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee hasn't unfortunately attracted the serious scholarship that he deserves.

Beginning in the s and 60s as a fiery opposition MP to the Nehru and Indira regimes, going on to become the foreign minister in the brief Janata government (who famously held forth at the United Nations in Hindi), and finally in shepherding the unwieldy coalition NDA government during to become the first non-Congress PM to complete the full five-year term, Vajpayee is a central character in the great Indian political drama.

Ullekh N.P's book - 'The Untold Vajpayee' - is therefore a much-welcome political biography of the man and to a good extent, of the nation.

As the South Asia expert at John Hopskins University, Prof.

Walter Andersen, says in the foreword to the book, the author is narrating Vajpayee’s life and