TY  - BOOK
AU  - Advani, L. K.
TI  - My country my life
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Calcutta,New Delhi etc
PB  - Rupa & Co.
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENT : Acknowledgements   ix Foreword by Atal Bihari Vajpayee  xvii Prologue  xxiii Phase One 1.  Triumph of Freedom, Tragedy of Partition  , 2 2.  Sindh and India: An Unbreakable Bond  13 3.  My First Twenty Years in Sindh  27 4.  Partition: Who Was Responsible?.  52 Phase Two 1.  Migration from Sindh to Rajasthan  62 2.  My Work as a RSS Pracharak  66 3.  Mahatma Gandhi's Tragic Assassination    71 4.  Dr Mookerjee and Formation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh  83 5.  The Thrill of Participating in the First General Elections  91 Phase Three 1. Moving from Rajasthan to Delhi 100 2. The Organiser Years 108 3. The Bliss of Family Life 119 4. My Entry into the Delhi Metropolitan Council 128 5. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya 137 6. The Beginning of My Parliamentary Career 155 7. The Journey from Kanpur to Kanpur 175 8. Two Events that Changed History 193 9. Emergency: Democracy Imprisoned 201 Phase four 1.  The End of the Darkest Period in India's History 256 2.  My Stint in the Information & Broadcasting Ministry 267 3.  The People Betrayed: The Fall of the Janata Government; Return of Indira Gandhi 286 4 . The Lotus Blooms 306 5.  The 1980s: The BJP's Phoenix-like Rise 320 6.  The Ayodhya Movement 341 7.  The Trauma and Triumph of Punjab 422 8.  The Entry and Exit of Two Prime Ministers in Two Years 439 9.  Five Years of P.V. Narasimha Rao's Government 453 10. Three Prime Ministers in Two Years 476 11. The Swarna Jayanti Rath Yatra: A Patriotic Pilgrimage 490 Phase Five 1. The Beginning of a New Era 528 2. The Kargil War: A Decisive Victory for India 561 3. The NDA Returns to Power 578 4. Review of the Working of the Indian Constitution 587 5.  At the Helm of the Home Ministry 600 6.  Cross-Border Terrorism 620 7.  Pakistan's Proxy War 643 8.  Dealing with the Kashmir Issue 665 9.  Vajpayee-Musharraf Summit in Agra 694 10. Securing Assam and the North-East for the Future 711 11. Naxalism, other Challenges and Initiatives 734 12. Communal Violence in Gujarat: Propaganda versus Reality 751 13. Defeat in Polls, Turmoil in the Party 761 14. My Pakistan Yatra, 783 15. 'I Have No Regrets' 824 16. Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Statesman with a Poetic Soul 833 17. Reminiscences and Reflections 847 18. In Pursuit of Meaning and Happiness in Life875 Epilogue 893 Appendices Appendix I:  Free India's Message to the World by Maharshi Aurobindo 902 Appendix II: Swami Vivekananda and the Future of India by Swami Ranganathananda 905 Appendix III; A Tale of Two Emergencies by L.K. Advani 916 Appendix IV: BJP's Palampur Resolution on Ayodhya 931 Appendix V: Speech by L.K. Advani at a function organised by The Karachi Council on Foreign Relations, Economic Affairs & Law, June 2005 934 Appendix VI: Statement by L.K. Advani at the BJP's National Executive Meet, Chennai, 18-19 September 2005 941 References ' .  943 Glossary 955 List of Acronyms 959 Index 964
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