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My Country, My Life is the extraordinary self-portrait of one of India’s leading political personalities: L.K. Advani. Forced to abandon his beloved Sindh, which became part of Pakistan after independence, Advani poignantly describes the sense of displacement that affected him, as it did millions of Indians. With a career spanning six decades as a political activist in post-1947 India, a witness to and participator of almost all the major socio-political developments in the country, Advani is uniquely qualified to offer a nuanced perspective on independent India’s political evolution.
His seminal contribution to India politics, along with fellow politician Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was creating the Bharatiya Janata Party as a viable alternative for governing India and ending the Congress’s dominance over the country’s polity.
My Country, My Life is a riveting, insightful and assertive account of Advani’s fight for democracy during the Emergency; his Ram Rath Yatra for the reconstruction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya that resulted in independent India’s biggest mass movement and a nationwide debate on the true meaning of secularism; and his year as India’s Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister in the Vajpayee-led government of the National Democratic Alliance between 1998 and 2004.
A testimony to what Advani has always been known for – his clarity of thought – My Country, My Life is a candid reflection of the man, his party, and his nation. In a country where political memoirs, especially by active politicians, are rare, this book is a landmark.ISBN - 9788129116543
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