Download or read book Atal Bihari Vajpayee A Man For All Seasons written by Kingshuk Nag and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From being one of the earliest members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee blossomed into a leading opposition MP by the late 1960s, went on to become external affairs minister in the short-lived Janata government and, finally in 1999, to head the first non-congress government to complete a full Term in Office. That it was a coalition government made the feat all the more remarkable and testifies to the fact that though wedded to a right-wing political ideology, Vajpayee did not believe in the politics of exclusion. A protege of Jana Sangh stalwarts like Syama Prasad Mukherjee and deep Dayal Upadhyaya, Vajpayee won the admiration of Jawaharlal Nehru, was consulted by his daughter Indira Gandhi - whom he never lacked the courage to criticize-and befriended by fiery trade unionists George Fernandes even before they became political allies. He thus displayed an unusual ability to carry along all shades of political opinion - An ability that came to the fore when he headed the National democratic alliance government between 1999 and 2004. And behind this public persona was an unusual personal life, conducted with such dignity as to remain free of innuendo. In this book, journalist Kingshuk Nag traces the political journey of this tall parliamentarian of over four decades, who was conferred the Bharat Ratna in December 2014. Atal Bihari Vajpayee: a man for all seasons is a definitive account of the life and times of one of India's most illustrious non-congress leaders.
Download or read book Atal Bihari Vajpayee and India s Foreign Policy 1977 2004 written by Jhilam Poptani and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atal Bihari Vajpayee and India’s Foreign Policy: 1977-2004: Initiatives, Policy Making and Achievements examines the life and work of a humanitarian, a visionary, an orator par excellence, a writer, a mass leader, and a Parliamentarian who is still revered by both members of his own party and by the opposition. Vajpayee’s long political career won him accolades as well as honors. Being closely associated with the Indian political arena from a very young age, Vajpayee with his knowledge, experience and charismatic persona became the ‘Bhishma Pitamah’ of Indian politics. He had achieved few major milestones during his long political tenure in the Parliament of India. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was unarguably one of the best and most influential Prime Ministers of India, serving the nation for a full term (five years) and two short terms, having impressive contributions to the development of India. He played a very significant role in shaping the foreign policies of India. Vajpayee’s dedicated efforts to solve persistent and major issues in foreign policies are remarkable. His indomitable determination and spirit helped India to attain its justified place in international forum. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s legacy is preserved and reproduced by successive leaders of India honoring his accomplishments.
Download or read book Atal The Invincible A Grand Parliamentarian written by Ram Nivas Kumar and published by Ram Nivas Kumar. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a good poet, a dignified journalist, an excellent parliamentarian and the most beloved Prime Minister of India. He was a role model for one and all. People of India have been in highly unturned love for him. He had several specific characteristics that could bring him close to people's heart. Shri Vajpayee was a towering figure in Indian national life. Throughout his life, he stood for the upkeep of democratic values. He maintained his commitment in all times whether as a parliamentarian, a Cabinet Minister, or the PM. He was a spell-binding orator, a leader of great vision and a patriot to the core for whom the national interest was paramount. He was a journalist, a statesman and more than anything a true son of India. His ideas, views and simplicity will always inspire the Indians and the people of the world. About the Book The book contains details of his life and achievements, political career, apt leadership, motivating quotes, etc. It contains elaborate description of his poetic excellence during his life span. The book contains chapters like this: 1. Introduction 2. Political Career 3. Atal as the Father of RSS 4. A Constructive Parliamentarian 5. Atal's Views on Different Issues 6. Atal as the Prime Minister 7. Deft Foreign Policy 8. Dealing with Pakistan 9. Excellence beyond Politics 10. Books by Atal Bihari Vajpayee 11. Quotes by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and 12. Awards and Achievements. The book is useful for the students, teachers, journalists and other intellectuals. The youth aspiring to be leaders must read this book.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shri Atal Bihari Vajapyee has been a patriotic social activist since early childhood, when the country was still under British colonial rule. He started writing poetry during school days. He has always been a poet at heart keeping social sensitivity. He develops intimate relationship with fellow human beings and the nation with intense feelings which find expression in his poetry. He is a critically acclaimed poet. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been an influence on the Indian society. He, as an illustrious parliamentarian and an intellectual with deep understanding on national and international affairs has been an active participant in shaping India’s post-Independence–domestic and foreign policies. He commands respect for his liberal worldview and commitment to democratic ideals. He was Prime Minister of India through three democratic mandates. Arvind Shah is a poet, translator and a children’s writer. His publications include children’s books, poems and translations. His translations represent the sentiments of the poet. Selected Poems by Atal Bihari Vajpayee: "Selected Poems: Captivating Verses by Atal Bihari Vajpayee" is a collection of poetry by the renowned statesman and poet Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This book showcases a selection of his most captivating and profound poems, encompassing a range of themes such as love, patriotism, nature, and introspection. Through his lyrical and expressive verses, Vajpayee takes readers on a poetic journey that evokes deep emotions and offers insightful reflections on life and the human experience. Key Aspects of the Book "Selected Poems: Captivating Verses by Atal Bihari Vajpayee": Poetic Mastery: "Selected Poems" showcases the poetic mastery of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a prominent political figure and revered poet. His poems exhibit a rich blend of imagery, symbolism, and profound insights, demonstrating his command over language and his ability to touch the hearts and minds of readers. Varied Themes and Emotions: The book encompasses a variety of themes and emotions, ranging from love and longing to social issues, patriotism, and spiritual introspection. Each poem carries its unique essence, allowing readers to connect with different facets of the human experience and engage with Vajpayee's thoughts and sentiments. Reflections on Life: Vajpayee's poems offer insightful reflections on life, society, and the world around us. They encourage contemplation, introspection, and a deeper understanding of our shared humanity, providing a source of inspiration, solace, and intellectual stimulation. "Selected Poems: Captivating Verses by Atal Bihari Vajpayee" features the remarkable poetic talent of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a distinguished statesman and poet. With his eloquence and sensitivity, Vajpayee weaves a tapestry of emotions and thoughts through his verses. His book serves as a testament to his literary prowess and his ability to convey complex ideas in a captivating and accessible manner. "Selected Poems" invites readers to immerse themselves in the enchanting world of Vajpayee's poetry, allowing his words to resonate and leave a lasting impact on their hearts and minds.
Download or read book Yug Purush Bharat Ratana Atal Ji written by Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was reading Nishankji's stories. Short stories, touching stories, touching life, seem to touch rural, hilly areas. If you delve into them now, you will get pain and it will leave so many questions behind. When I read the list of Nishankji's compositions, I am not talking about reading the compositions, then I acknowledged his calibre. Writing is a spiritual practice, if the feelings have been put into words, then it should be understood that it is an original form, and has taken concrete form, wants some shape, so the journey ahead begins. I congratulate Nishankji. But the sensation, which is of heart, should not die and when a person feels his sensation as the sensation of the whole country and society, then a change happens. (Excerpts of Atal's speech on the inauguration of Nisbankji's book- 'Khade Hut Prashn', a collection of stories, on 22" May 2007)
Download or read book The Untold Vajpayee written by Ullekh N P and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his grand 'secular' statements in Parliament that bordered on the Nehruvian, Atal Bihari Vajpayee has often taken brief excursions into the hardline camp. In 1983, he made an incendiary speech during the Assam elections in which the presence of 'Bangladeshi foreigners' in the state was a big issue. Even the BJP had disowned Vajpayee's speech, which possibly inspired the massacre of over 2000 people, mostly Muslims, in Nellie in Assam. Vajpayee, one of the shrewdest politicians of India, is known for negotiating multiple contradictions: from militant nationalism to his secret family life; his stint as a communist; his indulgence in food; influence of Gandhi and Nehru; Narendra Modi and Gujarat issues; foreign policies; and his attempt to project himself as a moderate face, if not liberal, among others. Exploring crucial milestones of Vajpayee's career and his traits as a seasoned politician, the book looks at his relationship with leaders of his party and the love-hate association with RSS and its feeder organizations. Thoroughly researched, supported by hard facts and accompanied by inside stories and anecdotes, insightful interviews and archival photographs, The Untold Vajpayee would open a window to the life and times of a poet politician.
Download or read book A Constructive Parliamentarian written by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts of bills introduced by Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the Parliament and related debates on the bills.
Download or read book Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy written by Hall, Ian and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narendra Modi’s energetic personal diplomacy and promise to make India a ‘leading power’ surprised many analysts. Most had predicted that his government would concentrate on domestic issues, on the growth and development demanded by Indian voters, and that he lacked necessary experience in international relations. Instead, Modi’s first term saw a concerted attempt to reinvent Indian foreign policy by replacing inherited understandings of its place in the world with one drawn largely from Hindu nationalist ideology. Following Modi’s re-election in 2019, this book explores the drivers of this reinvention, arguing it arose from a combination of elite conviction and electoral calculation, and the impact it has had on India’s international relations.
Download or read book The NaMo Story A Political Life written by Kingshuk Nag and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the truly enigmatic personalities on the contemporary Indian political canvas, Narendra Damodardas Modi is difficult to ignore. From his humble beginnings as a RSS pracharak to his rise in the Hindutva ranks, and from being Bharatiya Janata Party’s master planner to one of the its most popular and controversial state chief ministers, Modi’s mantra of change and development is gradually finding many takers. Though he evokes vastly different reactions among the citizens for his alleged role during the Godhra aftermath, what is absolutely clear is that he indeed is racing towards the centre stage, making the 2014 General Elections look more like a Presidential system – where, you either vote for him or against him. And that, as they say, is the Modi effect. Kingshuk Nag paints the most vivid portrait of the extraordinary politician who is poised to take on a new role in the coming years.
Download or read book Narcissus or Machiavelli written by Nishant Uppal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about leadership and its strategies. Drawing on Indian prime ministers since Independence, it traces personality traits and leadership skills that have shaped many futures. It examines a range of leadership profiles to study dominant traits in one of the most demanding leadership roles in the world. The volume focuses on Machiavellianism and narcissism as a framework to policy-personality connections and demagogic tendencies in leaders in politics and in everyday life. Accessible, engaging, and provocative, this book will be essential reading for professionals across industries and corporations. The general reader interested in leadership studies and Indian politics will also find this book useful.
Download or read book The Dismantling of India written by TJS George and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1947, two months after Independence, TJS George arrived in Bombay. He was nineteen years old, with a degree in English Literature. He sent out job applications––to the Air Force and to the city's English-language newspapers. Only one organization cared to reply, The Free Press Journal. The editor was known to hire anyone who asked for a job, but most new hires were sacked in a fortnight. George was put on the news desk as a sub-editor and eventually became an assistant editor. In Patna, as editor of The Searchlight, he was arrested by the chief minister for sedition. He spent three weeks in Hazaribagh Central Jail. In Hong Kong, he worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review as regional editor; in New York he was a writer for the United Nations population division; and, back in Hong Kong, in 1975, he founded Asiaweek. Six years later, he returned to India and settled in Bangalore. He began a column for Indian Express that ran without a break for twenty-five years, until 2022. His seventy-five years of journalism, concurrent with India's development as an independent nation, make for a unique understanding of events and personalities. Acclaimed for his widely historical, pan-Asian vision, George brings this far-flung experience to a compulsively readable new book, The Dismantling of India. It is the story of India told in 35 concise biographies, beginning with Jamsetji Tata and ending with Narendra Modi.
Download or read book Atal Bihari Vajpayee Poet and Ex Prime Minister written by Rahul Singhal and published by Pentagon Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kashmir the Vajpayee Years written by A.S. with Sinha, Aditya Dulat and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Srinagar in the winter of 1989 was an eerie ghost town witnessing the beginnings of a war dance. The dam burst the night boys from the separatist JKLF group were freed in exchange for the release of Rubaiya Sayeed, the Union home minister's daughter. As Farooq Abdullah had predicted, the government's caving in emboldened many Kashmiris into thinking that azaadi was possible. It was a long, slow haul to regaining control. From then to now, A.S. Dulat has had a continuous engagement with Kashmir in various capacities. The initiatives launched by the Vajpayee government, in power from 1998 to 2004, were the high point of this constant effort to keep balance in a delicate state. In this extraordinary memoir, Dulat gives a sweeping account of the difficulties, successes and near triumphs in the effort to bring back Kashmir from the brink. He shows the players, the politics, the strategies and the true intent and sheer ruthlessness of the meddlers from across the border. Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years paints an unforgettable portrait of politics in India's most beautiful but troubled state.
Download or read book Amit Shah and the March of BJP written by Anirban Ganguly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Amit Shah's political life, struggles, rise and triumph is little known. For a leader who is often referred to as the Chanakya of Indian politics, who has dominated India's fast-paced and complex political stage since 2014, has altered its electoral map by leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to successive historic victories post the May 2014 general elections, there is very little that is recorded or narrated. So, it's no surprise that the curiosity he evokes is ever on the rise. Most of what is written about Amit Shah is based on conjectures, hearsay, assumptions and biases. The real Amit Shah-the once booth-worker and now national president of the largest political party in the world, the master strategist who has pushed the BJP to an organisational pinnacle and yet talks of scaling peaks, a man who is unhesitant in his stand on nationalism and on anything which concerns India's national interest-has remained in the shadows, self-effaced, away from the limelight. The story of how he expanded the BJP into a pan-India party and the convergence of organisational science and ideology that has made the BJP a unique and formidable political entity is a story that needs to be told. The book narrates the personal and political journey of Amit Shah, captures the ideological world that shaped him and gives an account of the party that he is leading and shaping today. It is for the first time that his story is being told-an authentic, no-holds-barred portrayal of one of the most influential leaders of our times. To the political worker, the observer and to anyone even remotely interested in Indian politics, irrespective of their profession or political leaning, especially since the unfolding of Indian politics in the summer of 2014, this is a captivating exploration of the political life and journey of one of its central characters.
Download or read book This Land We Call Home written by Nusrat F. Jafri and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871, the British enacted the Criminal Tribes Act in India, branding numerous tribes and caste groups as criminals. In This Land We Call Home, Nusrat F. Jafri traces the roots of her nomadic forebears, who belonged to one such ‘criminal’ tribe, the Bhantus from Rajasthan, through the lens of caste and religious conversions over the last century. This affecting memoir explores religious and multicultural identities and delves into the profound concepts of nation-building and belonging. Nusrat’s family’s conversion to Christianity as a response to Brahmanical gatekeeping highlights their struggle for acceptance. The family found acceptance in the church, alongside a sense of community, theology, songs and carnivals, and quality education for the children in missionary schools. Parallelly, we see the family’s experiences during Gandhi’s return in 1915, the Partition, the two World Wars, the Emergency and the prime ministers’ assassinations. In a way, this is a story like and unlike the stories all of us carry within us; the inherited weight of who we are and where we come from, our tiny little freedoms and our everyday struggles and, mostly, the intricate jumble of our collective ancestry. Nusrat pays homages to her foremothers, the first feminists, and her forefathers, the ones who tried hard to fit into a caste society only to be spat out, and eventually chose alternative faiths in pursuit of acceptance.
Download or read book The Accidental Prime Minister written by Sanjaya Baru and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The Accidental Prime Minister was published in 2014, it created a storm and became the publishing sensation of the year. The Prime Minister’s Office called the book a work of ‘fiction’, the press hailed it as a revelatory account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first term in UPA. Written by Singh’s media adviser and trusted aide, the book describes Singh’s often troubled relations with his ministers, his cautious equation with Sonia Gandhi and how he handled the big crises from managing the Left to pushing through the nuclear deal. Insightful, acute and packed with political anecdotes, The Accidental Prime Minister is one of the great insider accounts of Indian political life.
Download or read book Vajpayee written by Shakti Sinha and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Prime Minister of India and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an understated politician of the kind not often seen in contemporary times. His patriotism was uncompromising, forged out of the paradoxes in his life: a sensitive poet who summoned nerves of steel to conduct the Pokhran-II nuclear tests; a man of humble beginnings who envisioned a project as titanic as the Golden Quadrilateral highways. Devoid of any natural political pedigree or patronage network, he harnessed his political acumen to transform India's relations with the United States which had long been mired in misunderstandings rooted in the Cold War. His prudent decisions led to key strategic and economic policy contributions. There is a need to understand Vajpayee as a decision-maker, with specific references to key initiatives in the strategic and economic fields that have had a significant effect on the India that we see today. Vajpayee fleshes out not only Vajyapee's political philosophy but also provides an insider's account and an intimate memoir of the person.
