Vk krishna menon biography of rory

Published in the Allen Lane imprint, this new narrative biography will attract a wide range of readers interested in the political and social history of contemporary India.

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Written in his inimitable engaging style, author Jairam Ramesh tells the story of one of the most colourful and controversial personalities of Indian public life, based almost wholly on new archival material that has come into the public domain in the last two decades in India as well as documentary and many other countries including the US, the UK, Russia and China.

The book will begin with his early life, chronologically moving through his agitational career in the UK for a quarter of a century and his diplomatic and political innings from to , culminating in his resignation as Defence Minister of India in November Krishna Menon, a compelling political personality in the emergence of modern India, will give me the chance to tell his story in all its complexity and depth through primary sources.

This book draws extensively, for the first time, on material that has become available in archives in India and many other countries including the US, the UK, Russia and China. It brings out Krishna Menon in all his various roles and incarnations. He was also one of the founder editors of Penguin, and it all comes full circle as we publish a book about him.

Menon blamed Sanjeevi for misreporting about him to MI5 during his London visit.

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