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    So far the 50th anniversary of Indian independence appears to have stimulated more excitement outside the country. The cultural imports have come flooding in: a special India number of Granta, new books by expatriate Indians such as Gita Mehta and Rohinton Mistry, popular histories of partition and biographies of prominent figures in the freedom movement, including India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. I am currently writing a life of Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, and I arrived in Delhi in late January along with the first copies of Stanley Wolpert's Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny-the import which has without doubt attracted the most scorn.

    For weeks the newspapers and magazines were full of reviews with headlines such as "Experiments With Half-truths," "Warts and All" or "A Below the Belt Attack." Just when the furore showed signs of waning, Wolpert, who is distinguished professor of Indian history at the University of California in Los Angeles, sent a stream of faxes to

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    Yesterday I finished reading the book "My Days With Nehru" bygd M O Mathai. He is also known as Mac, he was one of the intriguing and influential figure in the post independent India. He was born as a Syrian Christian, from Kerala, graduated from Madras university, with Economics and political science. Before joining Nehru, he had worked for US Army on Assam-Burma border and had good experience as PA for top officials in American Estate and also Bishops in Malabar church. In he was also on British pay roll in India. He was PM's special Assistance from to He enjoyed privileged tillgång to Nehru's household and office, having managed the secretarial work of PM. He was made to resign in after serious allegations of misuse of power were made bygd Communist party. He wrote two books Remeniscences of Neru Age  and My Days With Nehru which were published in year & respectively. These books were very controversial in those days. 

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