Natwar singh autobiography definition

  • Natwar Singh's autobiography, save for a small part devoted to settling scores, has enduring historical value.
  • Kunwar Natwar Singh s autobiography One Life Is Not Enough is an honest, searing account of the veteran s life as a bureaucrat, politician and cabinet minister.
  • The book titled "One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography" is to hit the stands tomorrow.

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    Natwar Singh’s book will be one of many accounts shedding light on the Gandhi family

    The mask is slipping. One is reminded not of Zorro but of the dramatic last scene in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth, where the human visage of Queen Elizabeth I, played by Cate Blanchett, is transformed when she emerges with her hair shorn, her face painted the colour of chalk and her body draped in a severe vanilla gown as she embraces the enigmatic persona of the ‘virgin queen’.

    Natwar Singh’s disclosures are not the first — and may not be the last — account emerging from the inner circle shedding light on the equally enigmatic Gandhis. Shekhar Kapur’s last scene is being repeated in reverse: some of the chalk is rubbing off, giving us a glimpse into what humanises the Gandhi family, what makes them tick.

    If we go with Natwar Singh’s version, the reason for Sonia Gandhi declining the prime ministership in 2004 was not her inner voice but Rahul Gandhi who had given her a 24 hour deadline. The
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    A wave of ‘tell-all’ memoirs from Congressmen is threatening the Gandhi Parivar

    After being rejected by the electorate, a beleaguered Congress Party is bracing itself for a fresh onslaught with several senior leaders busy writing their memoirs. Already at the receiving end from its cadres, the Congress party’s First Family could find itself in the firing line again as there is a growing buzz that the authors plan to spill the beans on the behind-the-scenes machinations in the party.

    Expelled Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh was first off the block last year with his autobiography One Life is not Enough in which he was particularly critical of party president Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

    Veteran Congress leader Mohsina Kidwai is in the process of putting together her memoirs, while former Union minister and governor Margaret Alva’s autobiography is due to come out soon. Indira Gandhi’s all-powerful secretary RK Dhawan

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    Is One Life Enough for 'Profession', but not for 'Politics'?

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