Description
Award-winning Newsweek columnist Pranay Gupte was in India in 1984 when he heard the fateful news of Indira Gandhi's assassination by two trusted Sikh security guards. This dramatic event, which changed forever the political and social landscape of India, was the starting-point for a journey of exploration through his native land. He also looks at India's relationship with Britain, the USA, the USSR and the rest of the world, and at how well Rajiv Gandhi has worn the mantle of power inherited from his mother. Pranay Gupte has found India poised on the brink of the twenty-first century - 'the Asian century' - and examines ways in which the nation can enter this period in triumph rather than disaster.
In this ever-tolerant, ever-compassionate, ever-curious book, Pranay Gupte has written a moving testament of hope to the country he loves.
