Former defence ministry bureaucrat recalls his moments in the 1980’s India, Indira Gandhi’s PM regime, and her two sons
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It was in the early 1980s, under
Mr Pandey was the then special assistant to the Minister of State for defence Shivraj Patil, and he must have breathed a sigh of relief after Rajiv Gandhi finished his briefing, because of which he and the Gandhis were able to attend the dinner with naval officers.
Mr Pandey had served in Assam and Meghalaya as a young IAS officer when he started his career, and then proceeded to handle crucial responsibilities at the Centre and in Bihar. He has now come out with a book, called
The book has been published by Palimpsest, and contains several of such incidents that Mr Pandey recalls, the one mentioned being from a trip to Bombay that he took with PM Indira Gandhi when India had launched a new ship on the Navy Day, along with Rajiv Gandhi.
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The book emphasises on the importance of India’s steel frame, as the name suggests.
He also mentions the temperamental, biased and whimsical
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