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Evolving with Subramanian Swamy: A roller coaster ride
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Roxna Swamy
| Author:
Roxna Swamy
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Roxna Swamy
Author:
Roxna Swamy
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback
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As recounted in the Preface, the idea of this book arose less than two years age, “when someone in the BBC asked me for an interview about my life during the Emergency”. The BBC correspondent, no doubt politically correct, failed to cover the author’s recollections which included some rather unflattering aspects of a national “hero.” As the author put it, ” The broken promise confirmed my rather poor opinion of the time serving nature of the Infian/Media intelligentsia; and I realized that if this Vajpeyee recollection was ever to go on record, it would have to be me who made the effort”. It then occurred to the author that quite a lot of other incidents that she had personally witnessed/experienced in a rather colourful life with her scholar-turned-politician husband, would never get told at all, if she herself did not make an effort to place them on record. Hence this book, which covers roughly the background and first quarter century of her life with her controversial husband, Subramanian Swamy.
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As recounted in the Preface, the idea of this book arose less than two years age, “when someone in the BBC asked me for an interview about my life during the Emergency”. The BBC correspondent, no doubt politically correct, failed to cover the author’s recollections which included some rather unflattering aspects of a national “hero.” As the author put it, ” The broken promise confirmed my rather poor opinion of the time serving nature of the Infian/Media intelligentsia; and I realized that if this Vajpeyee recollection was ever to go on record, it would have to be me who made the effort”. It then occurred to the author that quite a lot of other incidents that she had personally witnessed/experienced in a rather colourful life with her scholar-turned-politician husband, would never get told at all, if she herself did not make an effort to place them on record. Hence this book, which covers roughly the background and first quarter century of her life with her controversial husband, Subramanian Swamy.
About Author
Born in Pune, with an all India childhood spent in pre-Partition Sindh, Gujarat, Delhi and Mumbai and in undergraduate colleges in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, Roxna Swamy is now an advocate. It was a late entry into the profession. A mathematician by training, she did post graduate studies in applied mathematics at Harvard University in the U.S.A. and the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi. She received her doctorate in 1972 from the latter Institute with a thesis entitled "Stability of Plane Poiseulle Flow of a Slightly Elastico-Viscous Liquid". Thereafter, faced with the prospect of no job in her field of expertise, she wrote articles for an RSS newspaper that got closed down during the Emergency, where after she studied law at the Law faculty of the Delhi University. Since then she has been practicing law, in Delhi, mainly in the Supreme Court of India. She is married to the subject of this book, (who she succeeded in educating into the legal world where, without benefit of a law degree, he is now considered as something of an expert in serious public interest litigation) has two daughters, both professionals, both happily married; and has three grand daughters, all presently in their teens. For nearly half a century she has been a keen but quiet follower of the political situation in India, which forms the background of this book, which covers her own experiences there for the first half of this period.
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