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| Advani
sets agenda: Governance, development, Security |
| By INDO-ASIAN NEWS
SERVICE |
APRIL 05 2008, Hindustan
Times |
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Writing
in the epilogue to his autobiography `My Country My Life’,
Advani says India is weakened not only by financial corruption and
misuse of power in politics and administration, but also by pseudo-secularism,
minorityism, vote-bank politics, criminalisation, emasculation of
institutions and insult to the sacred symbols of our nationalism.
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| BJP
to launch website on Advani's book |
| By INDO-ASIAN NEWS
SERVICE |
APRIL 05 2008, Hindustan
Times |
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| The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) will celebrate its 28th birth anniversary on Sunday with
the launch of a website dedicated to party leader LK Advani's autobiography
"My Country My Life".
BJP sources said party president Rajnath Singh will launch the
website at the party headquarters in New Delhi at 11 am. Advani
and other senior party leaders will be present on the occasion.
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| My
Country My Life sends cash registers ringing |
| By RAJESH SINHA |
April 08 2008, DNA
India |
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The NDA’s
prime minister-in-waiting LK Advani may not match the Clintons –
who are reported to be earning more from book-writing and speeches
than in White House – but his autobiography is still reported
to be “doing very well”.
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| The
untold Advani story |
| By KARAN THAPAR |
March 29 2008, Hindustan
Times |
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Perhaps, this
is self-indulgence, but I’m going to elaborate on a little footnote
in history. Now that L. K. Advani has mentioned it in his memoirs
and spoken of it in interviews, I feel I can tell the full story.
“I’d like to meet Mr. Advani,” Ashraf
announced one day in early 2000. George Fernandes arranged the meeting
and I was asked to drive Ashraf to Advani’s Pandara Road residence.
It was fixed for 10:00 p.m. No one else was informed.
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| RSS
has exerted a profound influence on me: Advani |
| By STAFF REPORTER |
March 20 2008, The
Hindu |
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| NEW DELHI: On a day
that saw the realisation of his literary dreams and the release of
his book My Country My Life, senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani’s
only regret was the absence of “Atalji” on stage.
Published by Rupa and Co. and released here on Wednesday by the
former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the rather thick volume traces
the journey of political development in post-Independence India
as observed by a young Mr. Advani. It takes the readers on a 60-year-long
passage through an impeccable, albeit occasionally controversial
political career.
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| An
Advani balancing act |
| EDITORIAL |
March 21 2008, The
Economic Times |
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| Always take the middle
of the road and you can’t go wrong, an astute analyst of the
Indian political scene used to say. Leader of the Opposition and
BJP prime-ministerial candidate L K Advani seems to be scrupulously
following the middle path in his autobiography My Country, My Life,
released on Wednesday, some 13 months ahead of the next Lok Sabha
elections. It is unusual for an active national political leader
to come out with an autobiography a year ahead of the general elections.
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| Advani’s
memoir My Country, My Life released |
| By DEEPAK KUMAR
RATH |
March 30 2008, Organiser |
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Former deputy prime
minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani’s
autobiography, My Country, My Life, was released here on Wednesday
night by former president A P J Abdul Kalam. The booklaunch function
turned out to be a loud power statement, and lived up to all the hype
that had preceded it.
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| Between
the lines: Atal owes one to Advani |
| By SANKARSHAN THAKUR |
March 27 2008, The Telegraph |
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| Should Atal Bihari Vajpayee owe
his prime ministership to L.K. Advani?
As My Country My Life reaches more hands, BJP circles are ringing
with dissonance over the subtler overtones of how the author sees
himself in relation to Vajpayee. The former Prime Minister gave
the book sterling ratings in his abstracted foreword, but many are
viewing Advani’s tone towards his senior and mentor as often
“gratuitous”.
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| HUM
HINDUSTANI: Advani sounds an alarm |
| By J. SRI RAMAN |
March 28 2008, Daily
Times, Pakistan |
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An image can be
a ticket to power or a political trap. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s
enigmatic image made him a Prime Minister for eight years. Lal Krishna
Advani’s established image may not help him emulate Vajpayee’s
example. Is Advani’s just released autobiography (My Country,
My Life) going to supply an antidote to his supposedly alliance-unfriendly
image?
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| My
word! |
| By SHOBHAA DE |
March 30 2008, The
Times of India |
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What would LK Advani
do without his pet squirrel? Puzzled? Well, that's how Shri Advani's
media-savvy daughter Pratibha introduced herself to the elite audience
gathered at a stylish venue to congratulate the 80-year-old author
of a terrific book, My Country, My Life , which, thank the Lord, is
refreshingly candid and delightfully incorrect (politically, i mean).
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| Learn
from history to not repeat it |
| By SWAPAN DAS GUPTA |
March 30 2008, The
Pioneer |
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India is not blessed
with a book culture; nor do Hindus (as the Arab traveller Alberuni
complained a thousand years ago) have an evolved sense of history.
Given these inherent limitations, it was audacious of a serving politician
like LK Advani to try and break the mould with his autobiography,
My Country, My Life.
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| Lal
Krishna consciousness |
| By AYAZ MEMON |
March 30 2008, DNA
India |
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Lal Krishna Advani
has been travelling at breakneck speed all over the country over the
past few weeks to promote his autobiography, My Country My Life, which
has been as good as the launch pad for his election campaign too,
one reckons.
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| Advani with his website tries to woo young generation |
| By NI WIRE |
APRIL 07 2008, News Track India |
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After much speculation Advani at last revealed the motives behind the release of his book My Country My Life while launching a website on his book on Sunday.
He dedicated his site to the young generation of India who can learn a lot about politics from the book.
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| Advani`s memoir hits the jackpot |
| By NISTULA HEBBER & ASHISH SINHA |
April 07 2008, Business Standard |
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According to industry sources, within weeks of its launch, 'My Country My Life' is set to cross the coveted 100,000-mark in sales.
What does Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani have in common with JK Rowling? Little, except that he has now become a bestselling author like her.
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| L.K.
Advani’s My Country My Life released |
| By DEEPAK KUMAR
RATH |
March 30 2008, Organiser |
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The much-talked
about memoir and political autobiography of former Deputy Prime Minister
Shri L.K. Advani was released by the former President of India Dr
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at a grand function in New Delhi. The 1040-page
book has been published by Rupa and Co. Shri Advani has categorised
the book into broad five phases.
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| Atal
all praise for LK in book's foreword |
| By MOHUA CHATTERJEE |
March 14 2008, The
Times of India |
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| NEW DELHI: For L K
Advani, completing his "self-portrait", written over the
past nine months, has given him a "deep sense of satisfaction".
A foreword to his book, ‘My Country, My Life’, by "comrade-in-arms"
Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not have been more handsomely worded
as it hopes that Advani’s best is yet to come.
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| My
Country My Life and no controversy |
| By RAJESH SINHA |
March 21 2008, DNA
India |
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| LK Advani’s memoirs give BJP leaders
a sense of relief
NEW DELHI: Skirting problematic details and sticking to
public facts on the crucial events in the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), LK Advani’s book My Country My Life gave a sense of
relief to party leaders unaware of its content. Those who knew brushed
aside queries with “arre kuch nahin hai (there is nothing
in it)”.
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| To
Sonia, with My Life |
| By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT |
March 23 2008, The
Telegraph |
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New Delhi, March 22:
L.K. Advani today called on Sonia Gandhi and gifted her a copy of
his autobiography, possibly picking Holi to bridge a 10-year communication
gap.
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| With
My Country My Life, Advani hopes to reach out to the youth |
| By ALKA SAHANI |
March 26 2008, Indian
Express |
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One doesn’t
expect BJP leader L K Advani to be a fan of mystery novels. But
he is. So much so that a passage from Jed Rubenfeld’s bestseller
The Interpretation of Murder finds mention in the chapter ‘In
Pursuit of Meaning and Happiness in Life’ in his memoir My
Country My Life.
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| My
Country My Life is thanks to my family, says Advani |
| By SHUBHANGI KHAPRE |
March 26 2008, DNA
India |
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LK Advani is known
to the world as a family man. What remained unknown was the fact that
his book My Country My Life was the outcome of the constant nudging
from his wife Kamala to take up the pen and narrate his and the country’s
political journey over the past six decades.
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| Book
yatra |
| By EDITORIAL |
March 27 2008, DNA
India |
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The publication
of a book, especially a memoir, usually follows a predictable trajectory.
First the release of some scandalous tidbits which titillate interest
in the book; then the inevitable book tour where the writer goes around
giving interviews to further enhance reader curiosity.
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| A
Stitch In Time? |
| By ANAND SAHAY |
March 30 2008, Tehelka |
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BJP' S PRIME Minister-in-waiting,
LK Advani, hit the right buttons last week in an effort to give his
personal campaign a leg-up. He had his memoirs released by former
President APJ Abdul Kalam, who is – the way the BJP might calculate–
a Muslim. On the occasion of Holi, he called on Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan
Singh whom he routinely reviles. Clearly, Advani is keen to appear
prime ministerial, in the mould of Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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| For
Advani, it's nation first |
| By A SURYA PRAKASH |
March 30 2008, The
Pioneer |
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In his foreword
to Mr LK Advani's autobiography, My Country My Life, Mr Atal Bihari
Vajpayee has observed that during the course of his long and eventful
political life, Mr Advani has, at times, been misunderstood, and as
a result "become a victim of the dichotomy between image and
reality". Similar sentiments were echoed by Mr Jaswant Singh,
another leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party at the formal launch
of this book on March 19 when he said that "Advaniji is the most
misread, most misrepresented politician" in the country.
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