![]() ![]() ![]() Radcliffe especially comes through as a nice guy, living a simple life, making the tea himself and offering it to his guest. Some of my favourite articles were an account of Nayar’s conversations with Mountbatten and Radcliffe many years after the Partition happened. There are also parts on the 1965 war between India and Pakistan, and the 1971 Bangladesh war. There is a section on Partition, there are sections on the Indian Prime Ministers Nehru, Shastri and Indira Gandhi, there is a section on the Emergency. This book is a collection of his articles grouped under various themes, chronologically. His protest was praised and admired by Indira Gandhi’s opponents and critics, and 14 years later, when the opposition came up power, he was rewarded for his resistance, when he was appointed as the Indian ambassador to the UK. The next day, the police walked into his house, arrested him and put him in jail, where he remained for a few months. At that time Kuldip Nayar wrote a long letter to her protesting against the restrictions on the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. I think his peak in terms of fame came after the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, proclaimed the Emergency in 1975 and proceeded with her authoritarian rule. ![]() Kuldip Nayar was one of the famous Indian journalists in the 1960s and ’70s. I stumbled upon this book a few days back, and as I’m reading one nonfiction book after another, I thought I’ll read this. ![]()
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