Release of Arun Bhatnagar’s Book

Authored by Arun Bhatnagar (IAS, M.P., 1966), “India: Shedding the Past, Embracing the Future, 1906-2017” was launched at the IIC, New Delhi last week by Kuldip Nayar, veteran journalist and former Member, Rajya Sabha. The book offers, inter alia, a political narrative of the years of the freedom struggle, the roles of towering figures like Tilak, Lajpat Rai, Malaviya, Jinnah and Subhas Bose and an analysis of the Partition of India. The discussion on the tenures of successive Prime Ministers from 1947 onwards is interspersed with references to economic, social and administrative issues, income inequalities, the challenges of eradicating destitution and poverty and aspects of foreign policy, such as the China - Pakistan Axis.