A good read for those interested in Recent Indian history.

Being a veteran journalist with a career spanning almost 7 decades,Mr. Nair has written one of the best eyewitness accounts.It is a book for anyone who want to know about India immediately after 1947. It is an unbiased and interesting account of Nehruvian and Shastri era, about how government functioned in the initial decades of independence. Also it bursts a lot of myths surrounding that era, particularly about Shri Lal Bahadur Shastriji and his last visit to Tashkent.