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The book begins with the Janata experiment: Morarji Desai was Prime Minister and Vajpayee was Minister of External Affairs. Here, Desai and Vajpayee with Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, at the Indo-Soviet official talks in New Delhi on April 26, 1977

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A stirring biography of the vernacular daily reminds us that journalism once stood tall—and that Urdu was the defining voice of the people.

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Romila Thapar. The book can be seen as a summation of the historian’s decades-old engagements with India’s historical past.

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A boon for those who question so-called historians merely fantasising about the past and present only what they would like to believe happened.

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