Download or read book George Fernandes Speaks written by George Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected writings and speeches of an Indian politician, chiefly on Indian politics, 1964-1989.
Download or read book George Fernandes Speaks written by George Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected writings and speeches of an Indian politician, chiefly on Indian politics, 1964-1989.
Download or read book The Life and Times of George Fernandes written by Rahul Ramagundam and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Militant Trade Union Leader. The Dauntless Political Rebel. The Passionate Socialist Dreamer. This is a biography of India's George Fernandes. George Fernandes (1930-2019)-a firebrand trade union leader, socialist politician and incredibly powerful orator-is popularly known for leading the All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) in May 1974 and calling upon its approximately 1.7 million employees to strike, which brought India to a halt for twenty days. Often described as a rebel, he pursued every cause he took up with passionate devotion, heedless of the many ups and downs in his life. From the early years of fighting for the rights of dock and municipal workers of Bombay (now Mumbai) through the Emergency, which he resisted by going underground, to his last private decade as a bed-ridden Alzheimer's patient, his fights were always persistent and single-handed. George could call Bombay to be shut down and rose from its streets to become India's Defence Minister. The Life and Times of George Fernandes chronicles the story of George, who rose from the streets of Bombay to stride the corridors of power. In this extraordinary biography, Rahul Ramagundam opens a window to George's political evolution and traces the course of the Socialist Party in India from its inception in 1930s to its dissolution into the Janata Party in the late 1970s. In the process, this book explores the trail of India's opposition parties that worked to displace the long-ruling Congress Party from its preeminent position. Comprehensive, evocative and fascinating, this first definitive biography of George Fernandes is an unputdownable tour de force.
Download or read book Contemporary Political Leadership in India George Fernandes Defence Minister of India written by Shiri Ram Bakshi and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prism Me a Lie Tell Me A Truth Tehelka as Metaphor written by Madhu Trehan and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke Operation West End, the biggest undercover news story in Indian journalism. Using spycams and masquerading as arms dealers, Tehelka's reporters infiltrated the Indian government, bribed army officers, gave money to the president of the ruling party and the defence minister's close colleague right in the defence minister's residence. This eventually forced both the ministers'resignations. In a rigorously researched and searing authentic account of the Tehelka expose and its aftermath, Madhu Trehan does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villains of the story, and of how the system got back: by obfuscating, by attempting to destroy the investors without leaving any footprints. In the style of Rashomon, the story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and, of course, none of the stories tally. With exhaustive personal interviews, this is a must-read for anybody who wants to understand modern India - or even better, modern international journalism.
Download or read book Viewpoint written by Inder Kumar Gujral and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Life Among the Scorpions written by Jaya Jaitly and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she was a woman. Life among the Scorpions recounts the deeply fascinating and often tumultuous events that mark thirty years of Jaya Jaitly's political journey. From arranging relief for victims of the 1984 Sikh riots, to joining politics under firebrand leader George Fernandes, to becoming the president of Samata Party-a key ally in the erstwhile NDA Government, Jaitly's rise in Indian mainstream politics invited both awe and envy. But the going has been far from smooth. Trouble began with George Fernandes sacking Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat in 1998. Jaitly became the target. She was soon hounded by Tehelka's stings-first concerning her son-in-law-to-be Ajay Jadeja and then herself in an alleged bribery case. Eventually, Fernandes had to resign as India's Defence Minister, despite being the best, and Jaitly quit as the Samata Party President. Meanwhile, she spiritedly fought booth capturing in Bihar as well as fellow party men's egos, intervened and ensured the installation of the Samata government in Manipur. All this, even as she continued her parallel fight for the livelihood of craftsmen on the one hand, and conceptualized and ensured establishment of the first Dilli Haat (crafts market place) in 1994 on the other. With all the backstories of major events in Indian politics between 1970-2000, including her experience of dealing with the Commission of Inquiry and courts regarding the Tehelka stings, the story of Jaya Jaitly makes for a riveting read. A powerful narrative on why being a woman in politics was for her akin to being surrounded by scorpions; this hard hitting memoir offers a perspective on the functioning of Indian politics from a woman's point of view.
Download or read book There s Something in the Air written by Lorenzo Angeloni and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forging Power written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the evolution of coalition politics in India, both at the national and provincial levels. It investigates the processes that led to coalition governments. It explores the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Janata Party experiment, and the Third Front experiments. The book highlights the growing importance of regional parties in national politics and argues that the very notion of representation in terms of ‘national’ and ‘local’ is being redefined in the context of the emerging significance of coalition politics. It also examines the role of cultural synergy and political expediency in coalition politics and discusses the inevitability of coalition government in India.
Download or read book Twenty Tumultuous Years Insights Into Indian Polity 1973 1994 written by Ayub Syed and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two volumes the reliable work proves to be the contemporary chronicle of the major political events and political movements referred to as the history of modern Indian politics, and the personalities enacting events and movements, with top analysis and perspective to shape an insight to the most important years of Indian politics, norms trends and political truths ranks an excellence.
Download or read book Lok Sabha Debates written by India. Parliament. Lok Sabha and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brewing Resistance written by Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The hope of decolonization that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little known story of the movement against the Emergency as seen through New Delhi's Indian Coffee House based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories with the men who led the movement against the Emergency.
Download or read book Inside Nuclear South Asia written by Scott Douglas Sagan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analytical account of the causes and dangerous consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.
Download or read book No One Had a Tongue to Speak written by Utpal Sandesara and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the torrent’s thirty-foot-tall leading edge cut its way through the Machhu River valley, massive bridges gave way, factories crumbled, and thousands of houses collapsed. While no firm figure has ever been set on the disaster’s final death count, estimates in the flood’s wake ran as high as 25,000. Despite the enormous scale of the devastation, few people today have ever heard of this terrible event. This book tells, for the first time, the suspenseful and multifaceted story of the Machhu dam disaster. Based on over 130 interviews and extensive archival research, the authors recount the disaster and its aftermath in vivid firsthand detail. The book presents important findings culled from formerly classified government documents that reveal the long-hidden failures that culminated in one of the deadliest floods in history. The authors follow characters whose lives were interrupted and forever altered by the flood; provide vivid first-hand descriptions of the disaster and its aftermath; and shed light on the never-completed judicial investigation into the dam’s collapse.
Download or read book There I Was Media Musings written by Aruna Ravikumar and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living through dramatic times as one of the first woman political journalists in the broadcast media in the undivided state of Andhra Pradesh when private television channels breezed through the regional landscape in the mid-nineties, Aruna Ravikumar witnessed momentous developments and historical events frozen in time. ‘There I Was’! Media Musings'’ is a compelling read about her foray into journalism which unwittingly began with her listening to interesting news discussions by fellow morning walkers when she accompanied her grandfather to Hyderabad’s famous tank bund, culminating in her moderating political debates in television studios. Political intrigues, destruction of cities, caste conflicts, faction politics, and naxalite violence are part of the mosaic of experiences chronicled here with historical perspective and personal observation. Sketches of select celebrities from hundreds of interviews over decades will inspire awe and admiration in a world woefully lacking role-models. The book essays learnings from the media taking in its sweep, crowning successes and glaring failures and a wide gamut of issues in between.
Download or read book Indian Affairs Annual 2005 written by Mahendra Gaur and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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