“Deafening silence envelops the man who was responsible for nearly every major document that paved India’s path to independence,” she says. Historian and foreign policy analyst Narayani Basu, his great grand-daughter, has come up with this exhaustive study after extensive interviews and by digging up buried archival material. Hard work helped him go up the ladder until he became the most important Indian in the heart of the colonial government when freedom dawned. His next destination was Delhi where he took up a temporary job as a lowly placed clerk in the Home Department. Menon) had run away from his school and home and worked as a coolie at the Kolar gold mines before hawking towels on the streets of Bombay. History can be quite cruel to its makers. A man who died virtually forgotten in the India whose foundation he helped lay. A man who Jawaharlal Nehru dumped soon after the Sardar passed away. Imagine a rags-to-riches story, a man who rose from being a coolie and a street hawker to a top post in the Raj, an architect of modern India, a right hand of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and more. Menon, and there could not have been a more gripping and readable biography. There could not have a more unacknowledged and forgotten hero of a modern nation like V.P. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 440 Price: Rs 799 Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India
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