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Jun 30, 2023 · Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right (1924-1977) Abhishek Choudhary Picador India 432 pages Rs 899. The late Philip Roth, who managed to produce several examples of the Great American Novel, developed a pattern in the 1990s and 2000s, when he produced some of his best work.
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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 14, 2023 · It was there that he wrote ‘Hindu Tann Mann’, his most popular poem; it was there that he first attended the RSS shakha and discovered his gift for public speaking; and it was there that he won his first student union elections.
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...
- Do You Agree with The View That Vajpayee Was The “Right Man in The Wrong Party”?
- How Does This Narrative Begin in The 1980s?
- How Influential Were His Travels in Forming His World View?
Not at all. He was the right man in the right party, and not just that, he was leading that party. This narrative of the “right man in the wrong party” surfaces around the time the Janata Party government came to power, and in the 1980s.
Well, the original title of the book was ‘The Believer’s Dilemma’ and the U.K. edition still has that title. The reason was that Vajpayee’s real dilemmas on larger questions, like the direction of Hinduism or on governance, began towards the end of the Janata government, and the differences with the RSS on some of these issues came out in the publi...
Vajpayee’s world view widened significantly with his travels, especially when he went abroad. I write in great detail about his visit to the U.S., which was his first trip abroad, where he was astounded by the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society. He was curious about what bound society together. After that he travelled as part of almost every p...
Jun 18, 2023 · This first volume lays out 53 years of Vajpayee’s life, spanning from 1924 to 1977, and is written with a forthright but nuanced pen. Arriving in the world on Christmas Day in Bateshwar in...
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May 26, 2023 · In what is clearly an exhaustive biography of one of India’s most popular politicians, journalist-author Abhishek Choudhary does an extraordinary job of eight years of digging out primary sources unseen by others and talking to dozens who knew Vajpayee intimately to weave a political classic. The many shades of Vajpayee. This is no hagiography.
