jackwilson (True Core Lover): Tue, Dec 22 10:54 AM
Did you know that Indira Gandhi yearned for a daughter, 0r that veteran communist parliamentarian Hirendranath Mukherjee tried to find out if Comrade Jyoti Basu had accepted money to deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in 1998? *
23-12-09 - 21:49:44

jackwilson (True Core Lover): These and other nuggets of information are recorded in former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh's book Yours Sincerely, a selection of correspondence between him and eminent public personalities - among them Indira Gandhi, P N Haksar, H Y Sharda Prasad, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Rajiv Gandhi, E M Forster, Nadine Gordimer and Mulk Raj Anand. *
23-12-09 - 21:49:58

jackwilson (True Core Lover): The book, released earlier this month, does not include any correspondence with Sonia Gandhi. But many letters, written by people long gone, remain relevant even today. *
23-12-09 - 21:50:18

jackwilson (True Core Lover): In December 1971, Indira wrote: "It is not important what the Chinese think 0r what they want. What is important is what they do. So far they have kept to the expected line." Nearly four decades later, her advice would still make sense. *
23-12-09 - 21:50:42