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Contains 6 BW photos. A riveting saga of family, society and politics in India, from the Raj era to the tumultuous days of the Emergency and its Aftermath In this unflinchingly candid memoir, Zareer Masani draws on the letters and diaries of his parents, charismatic politician Minoo Masani and his gifted wife Shakuntala, to paint an intimate portrait of two remarkable individuals and their prominent but very different families the Masanis, Bombay Parsis, and the Srivastavas, UP Kayasths united by marriage but divided by temperament, lifestyle and political affiliation. Minoo s father Sir Rustom Masani was an ascetic scholar who scorned wealth and all the comforts it could buy. Shakuntala s father, Sir J.P. Srivastava, arch-loyalist of the British Raj and viceregal councillor, made a fortune as a mill owner and brought up his daughter in the lap of hedonistic luxury. When the two fell in love and eloped, Minoo was a twice-divorced, left-wing Congress activist. Later, he became a founder of the pro-free-market Swatantra Party a figure whom Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as his ideological inspiration leader of the Opposition in Parliament and a tireless campaigner agains

Author

Zareer Masani

Publisher

Penguin Books; Penguin

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143417606

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14