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Intertwined Lives: P N Haksar and Indira Gandhi
Jairam Ramesh, In conversation with Chandan Gowda
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This is the first definitive biography of arguably India’s most influential and powerful civil servant: P.N. Haksar, Indira Gandhi’s alter ego during her period of glory.
It is a compelling chronicle of the life and times of a truly remarkable personality who decisively shaped the nation’s political and economic history in the 1960s and 1970s that continues to have relevance for today’s India as well.
Speakers
Jairam Ramesh
Jairam Ramesh, a member of Parliament, has held key ministerial portfolios between 2006 and 2014- rural development, drinking water and sanitation, environment and forests, power and commerce. He has authored a number of best-selling books including Old History, New Geography: Bifurcating Andhra Pradesh (2016), To the Brink and back: India’s 1991 Story (2015), Legislating for Justice: The 2013 Land Acquisition Law (2015), Green Signals: Ecology, Growth and Democracy in India (2015), Making Sense of Chindia: Reflections on China and India (2005) and Kautilya Today: Jairam Ramesh on a Globalising India (2002).
Chandan Gowda
Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has translated UR Ananthamurthy’s novella, Bara (Oxford Univ Press, 2016) and edited Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (HarperCollins, 2016). A Life in the World, a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy is due to appear soon (HarperCollins, 2018). He writes regularly for newspapers, including a weekly column on culture and politics in Bangalore Mirror.
