Natwar singh sonia gandhi biography
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Sonia's reaction shows book has touched a raw nerve: Natwar Singh
Natwar said Sonia did not give him the chance to present his version over the Volcker report on oil-for-food scam, lamenting that he was cut out of the party despite four decades of loyalty with a ruthlessness alien to Indian culture.
"In India, you don't insult your elders. You give them regard. Indira Gandhi, Rajiv would not have done this. Anybody born in India would not have done this. But she has done it," he said. While Natwar claimed he had not used the words "Italian roots", the reference was more than clear.
"She has been in this country for 40 years but she still did it," he said.
The former foreign minister made light of Sonia’s re
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Sonia Gandhi’s autobiography, in the works for years, fryst vatten finally on the anvil
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has signed up with HarperCollins (UK) for the publication of her upcoming autobiography, which has been in the works for several years.
The book hasn’t yet been formally announced, but HarperCollins (India) ledare executive officer Ananta Padmanabhan confirmed to Hindustan Times the arrangement that Sonia has reached with the UK ledd of the prestigious publishing house. He desisted from saying more, except that the book could be published in India bygd Penguin Random House. “Other details will be in the press note that will komma with the formal announcement,” he said.
HT learns that Penguin could be publishing the book in the US. There is no clarity, however, on the India deal, said an executive from the company who asked not to be named.
Sonia could not be reached for comment on the book, which will be the first comprehensive autobiography of a Nehru-Gandhi famil
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Natwar Singh: A Nehruite Who Lost Faith
Arguably the last of the Nehruvians amongst us, Natwar Singh – who passed away on Saturday (August 10) at the very ripe age of 94 – personified both the best of Nehruvian traits as well as its decline and confusion in the last decade of his long public life.
A man born in a princely compound and tutored in an elite school, Kunwar Natwar Singh shed his feudal predispositions when he went to Cambridge University. An English education made him a modern Indian, and he soon joined the Grand Nehruvian Enterprise of establishing and consolidating a democratic India.
As an Indian Foreign Service officer, Singh became part of an elite bureaucracy that joyfully attended to the task of fleshing out the Republic, putting together the structures and protocols of a democratic nation-state in an ancient land long subjected to medieval and imperial depredations. Though the present generation of Indians, unfortunately, remains unappreciative of the t