Courage and commitment: an autobiography

By:

Alva, Margaret

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi 2016Description: ix, 370 pISBN:

9788129139566

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

954 MAR

Summary: Book Description Courage and Commitment-Margaret Alva's unflinchingly honest autobiography-details her forty-year career under four Prime Ministers-Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh and her eventual transition from politician to Governor. As the inheritor of a legacy-the Alvas have been associated with Indian Parliament for over half a century-Margaret Alva details her trials and triumphs and confronts the controversies that have rocked her career-her 1979 expulsion from the Congress party, her spats with Sanjay Gandhi, her role in framing Rajiv Gandhi's last campaign tour, her involvement with the Jain Hawala investigation when in charge of the CBI, her denunciation of the manipulation of seats by her own party and the events leading to her resignation in 2008 from the post of the AICC General Secretary in charge of eight states. At the same time, she offers rare insights into the lives of national and international political luminaries. Spanning Mangalore, Bangalore, New Delhi and the world at large, shedding light on family, friends and foes and detailing politics and policies, manipulations and machinations-Courage and Commitment is the story of a simple life made remarkable and is narrated with the author's trademark candidness.

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Book Description

Courage and Commitment-Margaret Alva's unflinchingly honest autobiography-details her forty-year career under four Prime Ministers-Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh and her eventual transition from politician to Governor. As the inheritor of a legacy-the Alvas have been associated with Indian Parliament for over half a century-Margaret Alva details her trials and triumphs and confronts the controversies that have rocked her career-her 1979 expulsion from the Congress party, her spats with Sanjay Gandhi, her role in framing Rajiv Gandhi's last campaign tour, her involvement with the Jain Hawala investigation when in charge of the CBI, her denunciation of the manipulation of seats by her own party and the events leading to her resignation in 2008 from the post of the AICC General Secretary in charge of eight states. At the same time, she offers rare insights into the lives of national and international political luminaries. Spanning Mangalore, Bangalore, New Delhi and the world at large, shedding light on family, friends and foes and detailing politics and policies, manipulations and machinations-Courage and Commitment is the story of a simple life made remarkable and is narrated with the author's trademark candidness.

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