The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

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Author: Neena Gopal
Publisher: Penguin Random House
No. of pages: 240
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Language: English
ISBN: 9780670088706
Published on: 2016
Book Format: Paperback
Category: Essay
Subject: International Politics, Eezham

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On 21 May 1991, journalist Neena Gopal had finished just one part of an interview with Rajiv Gandhi—the last of his life—when his car reached the election rally at Sriperumbudur. Moments later, Rajiv Gandhi was dead, blown up by suicide bomber Dhanu, irrevocably changing the course of Indian politics, as Neena Gopal, just yards behind him, watched in horror.

In this gripping, definitive book, Gopal reconstructs the chain of events in India and at the LTTE’s headquarters in Sri Lanka where the assassination plot was hatched and follows the trail of investigation that led to the assassins being brought to justice.

Drawing on extensive interviews, research and her own vast experience as a journalist, she deftly establishes the background—the short-sightedness of India’s Sri Lanka policy; the friction between the intelligence agencies and between the agencies and the external affairs ministry; the many warnings that went unheeded and the implacable hatred that LTTE supremo Prabhakaran felt for Rajiv Gandhi. Bringing all these complex threads together, Gopal takes us step by step to Sriperumbudur as Rajiv Gandhi walked inexorably to his death on that tragic May evening twenty-five years ago.

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