First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India
By B.G. Verghese.
Description
He was privileged to watch the creation of modern India from a ringside seat as a political and development correspondent, editor and columnist in the country s leading newspapers and journals. In between he had two stints in Government and was a member of committees and commissions that inquired into a number of seminal issues. The narrative of family and youth tell us something of the India that was. Thereafter, his worm s eye view takes us through the unpacking of the Constitution through legislation and planning, the efforts to build socialism under a permit-licence raj and control of t...
ISBN(s)
9380283768, 9789380283760