Book Launch: Vajpayee | Abhishek Choudhary, Shashi Tharoor, Swapan Dasgupta, Manisha Pande

Watch this deeply insightful conversation about the remarkable legacy of Vajpayee as Abhishek Choudhary, Shashi Tharoor, and Swapan Dasgupta engage in an intellectually stimulating conversation, moderated by Manisha Pande at the launch of Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924 - 1977.
About the book:
Charming and sensitive, secretive and vacillating, detached yet quietly ambitious, Vajpayee was a man of unusual gifts and some dangerously consequential flaws. He made an unintended entry into politics in 1948 as the underground organizer of the RSS, which had been banned for creating an atmosphere in which Mahatma Gandhi was murdered. In 1957, he became the first RSS swayamsevak to win a seat in the Lok Sabha. Soon, he grew popular for his fiery speeches and maudlin poetry, bridging the contrasting worldviews of Jawaharlal Nehru and V. D. Savarkar. In the first non-Congress government at the centre, the Janata coalition of 1977-79, he proved himself to be a successful Foreign Minister. As Prime Minister towards the end of his six-decade-long career, he tested nuclear designs, liberalized the economy, and steered India to a multi-party democracy. But his years in office also helped the RSS become mainstream, even respectable. A man of varied interests and poor health, Vajpayee's tumultuous career was matched by a complicated private life. Mixing new archival sources in India, the US and the UK with hundreds of detailed interviews, Abhishek Choudhary's authoritative biography is the first major inquiry into the psychology of the most glamorized and enigmatic Indian politician in recent history. In detailing Vajpayee's intimate relationship with the Sangh Parivar, Choudhary also paints a revealing emotional and psychological portrait of Hindu revivalism.
Buy the book here: tinyurl.com/556sms28
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Awesome !! 🙌
So proud of you Abhishek Choudhary & heartiest congratulations !!

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Congratulations pan Macmillan India for launching this amazing book! Hope reader will love to read it. Please pan Macmillan India Publication, I want to make a request to you that please release a biography on the life V G Siddharth, written by Rukmini Rao titled "The Coffee King". I am waiting for long time! Please!

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Manisha Pande is standing with Tharoor & Swapan , such is liberal privileged 😂

[@yj9032]

Brilliant panel

[@gyaaneshwarjoshi3894]

Politics is like a toilet in a house. It's inescapable but it's not a desirable place to visit.
-Guru Golvalkar

[@the24thintrovert]

This writer wanted to act too smart and wanted to somehow paint ABV in a negative shade but in the process he ended up protecting him as a based Hindu man.

[@srijandatta287]

Manisha is so out of place here. Please stop calling her, or lose her number.

[@the24thintrovert]

She was tolerable earlier but now she is out of hands