The Untold Vajpayee
Politician and Paradox
Ullekh N P
Penguin Viking
272 pages; Rs 599
Is any biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee possible without talking to some of his surviving contemporaries, particularly his one-time deputy and closest comrade-in-arms L K Advani, or even a Karan Singh of the Congress or Communist leader Somnath Chatterjee?
Ullekh N P’s The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox suffers because the author was either unable to get access to people who have known Mr Vajpayee closely, including his immediate family, or perhaps they chose not to share.
Sorely missing is fresh material or insights on Mr Vajpayee’s
