About the book
Former Prime Minister of India and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an understated politician of the kind not often seen in contemporary times. His patriotism was uncompromising, forged out of the paradoxes in his life: a sensitive poet who summoned nerves of steel to conduct the Pokhran-II nuclear tests; a man of humble beginnings who envisioned a project as titanic as the Golden Quadrilateral highways. Devoid of any natural political pedigree or patronage network, he harnessed his political acumen to transform India’s relations with the United States which had long been mired in misunderstandings rooted in the Cold War. His prudent decisions led to key strategic and economic policy contributions.

Vajpayee fleshes out not only Vajpayee’s political philosophy but also provides an insider’s account and an intimate memoir of the person.

Speakers

Shakti Sinha
Director, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Policy Research and International Studies, MS University, Vadodara; Distinguished Fellow, India Foundation; author — ‘Vajpayee: The Years that Changed India’

Shekhar Gupta
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, ThePrint

Moderator

Kanchan Gupta
Distinguished Fellow, ORF

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