These Lethal, Inexorable Laws - Rajiv, His men & His Regime by Arun Shourie


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ProductID: 8716 - Paperback - 421 Pages (Year: 1992)
ASA ~ ISBN: 81-900199-0-2

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This book is a collection of writings of the author recording his major disagreements with Rajiv Gandhi, and is a denunciation of Rajiv's tenure as Prime Minister.

This volume contains Arun Shourie's writings in Indian Express and deal with Rajiv Gandhi's handling of national affairs as Prime Minister of India.

Table of Contents

Introduction

RAJIV AND HIS MEN
Some Unsolicited Advice
The Conspiracy Theory
Why Rajiv Can’t Hear
‘Almost Like in an Uncivilized Manner’
The Lie as Hallmark

EPISODES
The Fairfax the Law
Their Cloak and Dagger
The Inference is Obvious
So Much Must Be Said

A Paper is Closed
What Happened on the 28th and Why
Issues and Answers
Tomorrow Will Be Too Late
The State in Action
Dam Hai Kitna Daman Mein Tere

A Friend is Absolved
Specific Enough, Mr. Prime Minister?
The Retrospective Absolution

A Committee Dodges the Facts
The Complainant is Tutored
A Forgery is Hushed Up
A ‘Regret’ is Invented
Evidence is Shut Out
Does Law Matter? Do Judgements?

A Bill to Shut Us Up
Fight it, Turn it Around
Have Faith in Rajiv
‘Honk If You Think He is Guilty’
A Hundred Onions, a Hundred ‘Chappals’
A Dialogue with Marionettes
Yes, Convince Him
A Good Beginning

An Officer of Law Writes
Prominent Enough, Mr Ramaswamy?

A Man is Executed
There May Not be Any Such Evidence?
This is How it Comes About
This Alone is Repentance

A Commission Boomeranges
R K Dhawan and Thakkar’s ‘Needle of Suspicion’
But Why are You in Panic?
Things to Remember
But How will Security be Jeopardised?
Who is Lying? Dhawan or Rajiv?
The Additional Secretary
‘Me Tarzan’
Can the CBI do Anything?

Rules Take to Forgery
The Heritage Foundation Letter
Botched as Usual
Forgers Inc.

The Befors Deal
What Should We do Next?
‘Welcome! We have no Comments’
Payments, Account Numbers, Companies, Bank Handlers
A Committee of Parliament?
An Alibi a Day is the Best Evidence
Some Refutation!
Just a Little Misunderstanding

THREE TRAGEDIES
Death as Arbiter
A Ruinous Tragedy
These Lethal, Inexorable Laws

WRITING OF THIS SORT
‘Won’t You Chaps Ever Let Go of the Poor Fellow?’
On Standing Up

About the Author

ARUN SHOURIE, among India's best known commentators on current and political affairs, backs his distinctive writing, his conscientiously independent perspective with rigorous analysis and meticulous research. He has been an economist with the World Bank and a consultant to the Planning Commission, and Editor of the Indian Express. His writings have gained him a vast following across the country, as well as several national and international honors.

To mark its 50th year, The International Press Institute has acclaimed fifty persons as Heroes of World Press freedom - as persons whose work has made a difference for the press across the World in the last half century, Arun Shourie is one of them.

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