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Wise, witty and intensely moving, the book brings to vivid life not just the personality of Rajiv Gandhi as a man and a leader but a whole phase of modern India s political history. The author narrates with total honesty and the most becoming modesty the story of promise soaring into achievement only to be cut down by destiny s inscrutable hand. Habibullah is to Rajiv what Abul Fazl was to Akbar. -Gopalkrishna Gandhi If you want to know who Rajiv Gandhi was as a person, a friend and a leader, and what his contributions as prime minister were, Wajahat Habibullah s thoughtful book, written with the sure hand of one who knew him from childhood and also served him professionally, is an unputdownable must read. -Pavan K. Varma On 21 May 1991, Wajahat Habibullah, then the commissioner of Kashmir (constituting the valley and two districts of Ladakh), had returned home after inspecting a mysterious fire at Dalgate, Srinagar. Much to his dismay, there had been another fire, one that left him devastated: an RDX explosion in the south Indian town of Sriperumbudur had taken the life of India s sixth prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi. My Years with Rajiv is an endearing account of a friendship that turned into an administrative partnership, one that gave Habibullah an acute insight into Rajiv Gandhi s political life.
