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May 14, 2023 · NEW DELHI: Besides offering some interesting insights into his early life, Abhishek Choudhary’s new biography titled ‘ Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-1977’ rebuts several myths about the man. In an interview to Sunday Times, Choudhary talks about why his aim was not to write a tribute but an unsentimental portrait, warts and all.
- The Public Life of A Private Man
- Atal and The RSS
- The Rise of The Hindu Right
- A New Era
Two very different descriptions of one man, but despite the hyperbole of the first, both were emblematic of just how difficult it has always been to encapsulate the enigma of Atal Behari Vajpayee. In his lifetime, nobody could – or dared – lift the veil with which Vajpayee shrouded what lay behind his carefully maintained public image, his role in ...
It was in Gwalior that Atal participated in his first RSS shakha, beginning a lifelong association that would influence his personality as well as his politics. Importantly, however, Choudhary points out that this did not mean a de facto introduction into the saffron brotherhood. It was, as yet, a strong stimulus, but it was one of many. The modern...
In many ways, this is much more than just a biography of one of India’s most well-known right wing leaders. This is also a narrative of the rise of the Hindu right in India, at a time when politics was too fluid to be binaried into distinct sects of left and right. So when a reader chances upon colloquially used phrases like “pissed off,” it is as ...
Geopolitics and the warp and weft of national politics braid together for much of the second half of this book, with India taking its first independent steps in the realm of foreign and economic policy. Yet Choudhary does not lose sight of the fact that the dynamics driving political discourse were often personal. Much has been made recently of a q...
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Choudhary, in an amusing tone, after coming across Vajpayee’s eighth class result (imagine someone doing that to you, the horror of that), debunks the myth perpetuated by other biographers that Vajpayee had been academically gifted.
May 26, 2023 · Once China attacked India, Vajpayee expressed full support to Nehru, a stand not appreciated by most RSS-Jana Sangh leaders. An irked Acharya Kripalani dubbed Vajpayee a Nehruvian in Sangh garb. In reality, Vajpayee’s differences with others over Nehru were more semantic.
Jun 2, 2023 · In a conversation, Choudhary busts several myths surrounding Vajpayee and how the formidable election machinery of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) originated and grew. Excerpts from an...
Jul 13, 2023 · Abhishek Choudhary’s Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right (1924-1977) offers fascinating psychological insights into Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s psyche, and thereby into the thinking of the...
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May 10, 2023 · In this singularly gripping account, Abhishek Choudhary sets out to prove that Vajpayee was far more critical to the project of Hinduizing India than is commonly understood.
