Book Review - LK Advani autobiography "My Country, My Life"

Lal Krishna Advani is an important leader of the BJP. In fact, after Vajpayee is the best known face of the BJP Indian political horizon. Advani lasted eight decades of Indian politics. From this point of view alone, his autobiography "My Country, My Life 'a significant contribution.

The book is comprehensive, covering his life from his time Advani in Karachi before independence to 21 Century. This is a huge canvas and Advani spent much time on itthe facts as he sees them. Few Indian politicians of considerable stature wrote an autobiography, with the exception of Nehru. Advani must be completed for this step.

Advani book is interesting reading as it provides an overview of the thinking process of the Hindu social and party political options for the start of the political morality of the Jan Sangh LEDs. This party then transformed into the BJP. The first part of the book, especially, itsPeriod in Karachi and the impact of RSS on it makes interesting reading. He expressed his disappointment with the Congress Party for the perceived failure to prevent partition and commends the work of the RSS in the difficult days of 1947 when India flames with riots between Hindus and Muslims was. Advani also discussed the bomb plot of 1947 in Karachi, where some leaders have been involved Sindhi Hindu.

Advani to clarify its equation of Gandhi. He brings up the fact that heall due respect to the leader, but his analysis of Nehru and Indira Gandhi are revealing. Criticized them.

The book distributed over a thousand pages, had worked at least 200 pages and related content would not have lost. After reading his book one can appreciate the brand of nationalism Advani. His interpretation of the ruling Shah Bano and his Ram Rath Yatra and the Ram temple in Ayodhya, which led to the downfall of the government, VP Singh are interestingthey reflect the views of Advani and the BJP Hindu party which is (Bharat Janta Party).

Advani, however, throughout his long association with the RSS (GOM Swayam Sevak Sangh) and the Hindu revivalist BJP party and the former Jan Sangh should come as a secularist. Nowhere in the book Advani seems to be something other than a nationalist. Penning was when this book is a possibility that the Indian Prime Minister, which would be with some parts that were written in MayView. But this is not the merit of the book, not diminish. The reading gives you an overview in the mind of one of the great Hindu leader of the BJP today.

Advani was deputy prime minister in the BJP government led by Vajpayee. His friendship with Vajpayee will be clear where the mentor of Vajpayee and Advani was the follower. However, Advani fly over his role in the liberation of the wanted terrorist Masood Azar, after the abduction of Air Indialine of aircraft. Slides in Greater This would add value.

Moreover, no personal intimate details of personal life is Adjani. The autobiography is not the political will, but should be comprehensive, including personal life. This gap is not addressed in the book.

But the book is worth reading if only for the work of the Spirit of him who asked not to be the king. Advani defeat at the hustings by the substance of the book, not diminish.

Country Matters

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In this delightful memoir, at once hilarious, canny, and moving, Michael Korda does for Dutchess County, New York, what Frances Mayes did for Tuscany. This witty memoir reads like a novel, as it chronicles Korda's transformation from city slicker to full time resident of Dutchess County.

Korda tells the true tale of what country life is really like - from fried bologna sandwiches to the ups and downs of owning pigs, from the challenges of properly keeping horses, to the sad but true fact that all the locals are fully aware that he "don't know shit about septics." Sure to have listeners in stitches, this is an audiobook that will appeal to everyone who's ever dreamed of owning the perfect little escape up in the country.

• ISBN13: 9781587885914
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Despite the fact that Michael Korda was city born and bred (and, as editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and a bestselling author, part of Manhattan's elite), when he decided it was time to put down roots, he wanted land, trees, and a place in a community with history. The house he bought with his wife, Margaret, in Pleasant Valley, two hours north of New York City, was built when George Washington was president. It came with two barns, 20 acres, a backhoe, a bush hog, a York rake, a dozer blade, a bluff, and a slightly deaf old man named Harold Roe. Since Korda couldn't handle a hammer (plumbing and heating problems in his past merely involved calling the building super and keeping a 20-dollar bill handy), Harold became a permanent fixture, wielding large equipment, destroying the flowers, and showing the couple everything they needed to know about the real country.

Pleasant Valley, it turned out, was on the "wrong" side of the Taconic Parkway. It was "red and black plaid hats with earflaps and insulated bib-front overalls country," as opposed to Ralph Lauren estates country. Despite the blue-collar atmosphere (or rather because of it), the Kordas have been there for two decades. Becoming locals hasn't been easy, however. Korda relishes the moments that mark him as an insider--hanging out at the local diner, buying a Harley-Davidson, and most importantly, buying pigs. Pig watching in a place like Pleasant Valley is a truly bonding experience, which Korda describes with his characteristic dry wit:

Pig watching is not something anybody does in a hurry, as we came to learn. You have to shift your trousers down a bit, loosen up your belt a notch or so, give your belly a little breathing room, light a cigarette if you're a smoker, and look at the pigs for a good long time. Then you sigh, nod your head, and say, "Them's nice pigs, them pigs." Then you look at them some more.

You get the idea. A natural raconteur, Korda makes the quirks of living in an old house and the quest for local status in an insular community highly entertaining, and he proves once again that, while he may not be handy with tools, he certainly knows his way around the written word. --Lesley Reed

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How did Mr. Korda become an editor? - AY -
I suppose rich editors (did they really buy him a motorcycle for his 25th anniversary at S&S? No wonder books are so expensive!) don't need their own writing edited (run-on sentences, anybody?). Mr. Korda's ego would have been less damaged had he moved to the place he clearly thought he belonged - with the other "gentry" in a house with "a tennis court" and "a swimming pool" (how many times is this mentioned in the book?). At least Mr. Korda's ineptitude served to enrich the local economy. His will never truly be the "Korda farm". He never rightfully belonged in the country.

It's a misleading title and should not have been marketed as a "back-to-the-land" book with its Farmer's Almanac cover design. Judging by other reviews, it is clear that other readers felt the same way. Memoirs are a popular genre but usually the author has something interesting to tell. This does not. Don't read this unless you are a rich person looking for what you would like to call a country estate where you hire people to do everything and yourself don't know one end of a screwdriver from another. Maybe then you could relate.

This book is good - for toilet paper. Of course if you're a sucker who has Kindle then I guess you're SOL.

For an interesting book and relief from this terrible work, I suggest Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" or anything by John Seymour.