📂 Fiction
📅 2013
🏛 Fazi Editore
🌐 Italian
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✦ LIBER ✦
The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
✍ Scribed by Neena Gopal
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin/Viking
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
On 21 May 1991, journalist Neena Gopal had finished just one part of an interview with Rajiv Gandhi--the last of his life--when his car reached the election rally at Sriperumbudur. Moments later, Rajiv Gandhi was dead, blown up by suicide bomber Dhanu, irrevocably changing the course of Indian politics, as Neena Gopal, just yards behind him, watched in horror. In this gripping, definitive book, Gopal reconstructs the chain of events in India and at the LTTE's headquarters in Sri Lanka where the assassination plot was hatched, and follows the trail of investigation that led to the assassins being brought to justice. Drawing on extensive interviews, research and her own vast experience as a journalist, she deftly establishes the background--the shortsightedness of India's Sri Lanka policy; the friction between the intelligence agencies and between the agencies and the external affairs ministry; the many warnings that went unheeded; and the implacable hatred that...
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