Bøger af Arun Shourie

METHODICAL RESEARCH RARELY LENDS ITSELF TO PASSIONATE WRITING. BUT INFALLING OVER BACKWARDS, ARUN SHOURIE SEEKS TO COMBINE FACTS, FIGURES, STATEMENTS AND JUDGEMENTS WITH THE ARGUMENTATIVE RHETORIC OF A PROPAGANDIST. THE RESULT IS AN EMINENTLY READABLE BOOK. RESERVATIONS IN JOBS AND EDUCATION HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CONTENTIOUS ISSUE. EVER SINCE PRIME MINISTER V.P. SINGH UNLEASHED THE MANDAL COMMISSION REPORT IN 1989, THE ISSUE OF RESERVATIONS HAS BEEN HOTLY DEBATED ACROSS INDIA`S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

The work done by Arun Shourie and his colleagues rocked institutions and governments: the freeing of 40,000 undertrials; revealing the Bhagalpur blindings; purchasing Kamla; dislodging a 'Sultan'; foiling 'strikes'; controverting Judges; battling privilege motions; courting contempt of court charges; nailing corruption, forgeries, lies, and the opportunism of rulers; uncovering suppressed reports... What lay behind these and the consequences that followed? A comprehensive account of dramatic incidents like getting governments to swallow legislation against the press, unseating of chief ministers, a prime minister unspooling himself even as manoeuvres to unseat him are scotched, a deputy prime minister trying to dislodge colleagues with fabricated documents, people's movements ending up as rivulets in the sand, The Commissioner for Lost Causes discusses Shourie's innings, the calumny hurled at him, his dismissal, and his being recalled and removed again. Delicious tales of characters from the noble to the colourful to the short-sighted to outright bounders: from JP, to a president, to prime ministers, a deputy prime minister, chief ministers, a conman, indignant editors, and of course a great warrior, the press baron, feature in this honest retelling of the life of Arun Shourie, the writer, former editor and minister who was acclaimed as one of the fifty 'World Press Freedom Heroes'.

A MUST-READ FOR OUR TIMES. A MUST FOR STRENGTHENING THE COUNTRY. ON WHAT ASSUMPTIONS WAS PANDIT NEHRU CONFIDENT THAT CHINA WOULD NOT INVADE INDIA IN 1962? WHY AND ON WHAT BASIS DID HE SCOTCH ALL WARNINGS IN TIBET AND OUR ENTIRE BORDER? WHAT DID HE DO WHEN THOSE ASSUMPTIONS PROVED WRONG? WHAT EVENTUALLY LED TO THE DEBACLE OF 1962? ARE THE SAME DELUSIONS AND MISTAKES NOT BEING REPEATED NOW? WHY WILL THE CONSEQUENCES BE ANY DIFFERENT? THIS IS A DEVASTATING ANALYSIS AND WARNING ON INDIA S POLICY AND APPROACH REGARDING CHINA, BASED ON NEHRU S NOTES TO HIS OFFICERS, HIS CORRESPONDENCE, INCLUDING LETTERS TO CHIEF MINISTERS AND HIS SPEECHES IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT. 'सेल्फ डिसेप्शन' (आत्मवंचना) या पुस्तकात पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू यांनी भारत-चीन संदर्भात केलेला पत्रव्यवहार आणि त्या संदर्भात केलेली भाषणे यांचा आढावा घेऊन त्यावर अरुण शौरींनी भाष्य केलं आहे. त्यातून भारत-चीन संदर्भात नेहरूंचं धोरण कसं होतं, त्या धोरणांचे परिणाम काय झाले, तत्कालीन राजदूतांची भारत-चीन संदर्भातील मते, या प्रश्नाच्या संदर्भात माध्यमं काय करतात इ. मुद्द्यांकडे लक्ष वेधण्याचा प्रयत्न त्यांनीR केला आहे. 'साधी वस्तुाQस्थती ही आहे की सुरुवातीपासूनच चीनचा आपल्या प्रदेशावर डोळा होता; आक्रमण करण्यासाठी त्यांनी उघड उघड आपली स्थिती बळकट केली; पंडितजी आ